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The Evolution of Marriage
July 16, 1891 issue

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The article discusses the book The Evolution of Marriage, by C. Letourneau. The history of the development of any social institution has this for its most noticeable effect upon the mind of the reader: it suddenly changes the perspective in which he is in the habit of looking at the world, and he sees, if only for a moment, that modern civilization is but a brief breathing-place. In the case of Letourneau's book on marriage, the space given to modern is more profound than the true condition of things demand. In this book the author's main object is the collection of all the facts in regard to the marriage relation as it has existed at all times and in all places, and even among the higher animals.

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EVOLUTION of Marriage, The (Book); LETOURNEAU, C.; MARRIAGE; SOCIAL institutions; INTERPERSONAL relations; CIVILIZATION, Modern
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