‘They arise, as marriage customs always do, from economic necessities of the circumstances – and our circumstances are very different from those here on Earth. Take the line type of marriage which my colleague has been praising … and justifiably, I assure you, despite his personal bias – I am a bachelor and have no bias. Line marriage is the strongest possible device for conserving capital and insuring the welfare of children – the two basic societal functions for marriage everywhere – in an environment in which there is no security, neither for capital nor for children, other than that
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