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NOTHING could be more conducive to harmonious relations between husband and wife than intimate pre-marital experience of each other, with reference t ...
... very ancient times. Among many savage peoples there is a regular marriage upon trial ... law would have. I have sufficient first-hand knowledge of those rural customs to know ...
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WE have reserved our account of the customs of our country to the end, in order that the reader may be in a better position to understand the origin ...
... or less remote antiquity. There are more survivals in our present marriage customs than ... he is welcome or had better be gone. The ...
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THE lives of the Celestials, as the Chinese style themselves, are very much ruled and influenced by certain notions with regard to spirits and the sp ...
... to live. They therefore at once selected a day for his marriage. On ... instance, when a young girl has taken the fancy ...
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IN expressing my belief in the persistence of marriage I spoke of some form of marriage; I did not say monogamous marriage. Even in the Christian wor ...
... Published Carnivora) IN expressing my belief in the persistence of marriage I spoke of ... for they are generally deputies in another place them-selves". These customs were of ...
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IT is doubtful whether the Vedas and other ancient sacred books of the Hindus countenance the polygamy which prevails among the richer classes in Ind ...
... in India, and against this degradation of the sex bellowed marriage ceremonies, which ... century is in nothing more apparent than in the ave ...
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IN the preceding chapters I have endeavoured to show that the unhappiness which nowadays so frequently embitters married life may be to some extent r ...
... always remain a sufficient amount of it to justify the question whether marriage is likely ... this practice. So, too, among more cultured peoples whose customs allow or ...
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PRE-MARITAL sexual intercourse is considered to be a desirable prelude to marriage not only when it has the character of a trial union with the futur ...
... in-distinctly sexual intercourse is considered to be a desirable prelude to marriage not only when ... reference to" ischis societies ") upon the customs of one small ischis people, ...
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AMONG the the wild aborigines of South Australia and other parts of the continent there are no marriage rites at all, and a wife is obtained either b ...
... of South Australia and other parts of the continent there are no marriage rites at ... Greenland we find marriage by capture in full force. ...
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The unfortunate Greeks having so long been under the yoke of Turkey it is not surprising to find that some of their marriage customs resemble those o ...
... of Turkey it is not surprising to find that some of their marriage customs resemble ... the Malanta art. The painful and tedious ...
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THAT Russians do not esteem women highly is clearly shown by their proverbs. There is only one soul, they say, between ten women. A husband declares, ...
... betrothed. hand-striking has well shown that many of the marriage customs of this country ... , although the upper classes are gradually assimilating those of ...
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