A Civil Contract How Made and How Dissolved By Gerve Baronti, Our contributors comments on marriage and divorce and on the Bolshevik way of managing them are her owl We must not be taken us endorsing the by publication. The Soviet marriay and divorce recitations here quoted are, however, of much interest. We be~ lieve that they are quite authentic and that this ig their first appearance in English.
The monogamous mari into effect when man de he must have "legitimate" heirs to inherit his property. With a newer order of things—where the State is made responsible for the lives its people, the old-fashioned monogamous marriage would not, be necessary. Some form of monogamy, for limited periods, may always be necessary to hold society together. In the old days group marriage held a certain society together. The entire group males was married to the entire cup of females—but as man developed he acquired property, and he wished to loave it to his own offspring. From this early desire to protect his progeny—selfish in the broad way but personally commendable—has developed marriage as we know it to-day.
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