CHAPTER III
THE SOCIAL NATURE OF MARRIAGE
It is entirely obvious that marriage is the most fundamental and the most primary of human relationships.
No other relationship enters into comparison with it as to its basic character. For it is the fountain of all other relationships.
The relationship of father, mother, sister, brother, son, daughter, uncle, aunt, cousins, grandparents, and all blood relationships, proceed from it.
And more than that, from marriage proceed not only families and family life, but society itself, the nations, all humanity.
It would seem highly important to have the fountain from which proceeds all human life kept pure and protected by whatever useful means society may determine.
After all it is a question of society protecting itself.
The mistake that people today seem to be mak-
