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The family is older than humanity, and therefore cannot be called a human institution. A post office, now, is wholly human; no other creature has a post office, but there are families in plenty among birds and beasts; all kinds permanent and transient; monogamous, polygamous and polyandrous.
Gudrun, who had been watching Gerald in the Reunionsaal, suddenly thought: 'He should have all the women he can it is his nature. It is absurd to call him monogamous he is naturally promiscuous. That is his nature. The thought came to her involuntarily. It shocked her somewhat. It was as if she had seen some new MENE! MENE! upon the wall. Yet it was merely true.
The question is shall I, having given myself to one man or one woman, abide by the till-death-do-us-part vow, or shall I be free to change partners at will? The natural mood of most men and women entering marriage is deeply monogamous. The one thing husband and wife crave is to depend only on each other forever.
I'm too monogamous toward Erik! my child Erik, who needs me. "Is an illicit affair like a gambling debt demands stricter honor than the legitimate debt of matrimony, because it's not legally enforced? "That's nonsense! I don't care in the least for Erik! Not for any man.
She knew it was necessary that she should dispel Ellen's suspicion, because they must work together to make a serene home for Richard, and she desired to do so for her son's sake, because she herself was possessed by the far fiercer monogamous passion of achieved and final love, which is disillusioned concerning mystical draughts, but knows that to take the bread of the beloved and cast it to the dogs is sin.
All that has so far been said about Luther's views on the subject of polygamy could be most powerfully reinforced by a review of Luther's teaching on matrimony as a divine institution, which Luther consistently throughout his writings regards as monogamous.
In the North, the male sea-bear of Steller is accompanied by even a greater number of females. It is an interesting fact, as Dr. 'The Eared Seals, American Naturalist, vol. iv. Amongst birds, many species, the sexes of which differ greatly from each other, are certainly monogamous.
The man or the woman who is free, and particularly free from self-condemnation, is instinctively monogamous. Life in all its phases tends upward toward conscious and specific selection. Conscious selection must include love, and we may safely trust love. Love is inseparable from truth and fidelity.
Mention is here made of this incident to show how deeply rooted is the possessive idea of marriage, which had its origin in nothing more ideal than the animal instinct of the dog with the bone. Nor would we give the impression that this one-sided idea of what constitutes a monogamous marriage is confined to the male.
The practical and sustaining reason for monogamy is the stability it gives to the family; the value of a stable family lies in the orderly upbringing in an atmosphere of affection that it secures in most cases for its more or less numerous children. The monogamous family has indisputably been the civilizing unit of the pre-mechanical civilized state.
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