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The Permanence of Marriage
Krutch, Joseph Wood | October 9, 1929 issue

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This article focuses on the books on marriage. The Books a "Marriage," by Edward Westermarck; and "What Is Right With Marriage," By Robert C. and Frances Williams Binkley. In the first of these books the veteran historian of marriage takes a few more than a hundred pages of masterful summary to state the results of his study; in the second a young college instructor and his wife collaborate upon a theory designed to explain why matrimony continues to be a desirable institution. Westermarck is, of course, concerned primarily describes for us the forms which it has assumed at different times, and his attitude is primarily that of a man too familiar with the infinite variety of custom to risk the deduction of an imperative.

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MARRIAGE; MARRIAGE (Book); WHAT Is Right With Marriage: An Outline of Domestic Theory (Book); WESTERMARCK, Edward; BINKLEY, Frances Williams; SOCIOLOGY literature
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