You must begin with such questions. Always study beginnings.
Nothing can be learned by taking hold of a thing in the middle
and examining its imperfections.

The first priest to join man and woman together was no benign
being with lawn sleeves and soul-stirring words.

Marriage was brought about on this earth by the will and wisdom
of God Almighty working through primitive babyhood.

In the old days, when the world was cruder, men and women ran
wild through forests and swamps. They fought nature, fought each
other, as savage as other beasts around them. There was no love;
there was no marriage. The instincts of self-preservation and
of reproduction worked alone to keep the race here through its
hard childhood. ----

But in cold stone caves or in rough nests under fallen tree
trunks savage children were born and nursed by their savage
mothers with savage affection.

Through those infants of the stone age, or of ages much earlier,
marriage and pure affection came into the world.

It is not hard to reproduce in our minds the picture of the first
marriage.

A savage woman, half human, half ape, with rough, matted locks
hanging round her face, sits holding her new-born baby,
protecting it from wind and cold.