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wedlock. The biologist can only conclude that unquestionably the health- 

 iest, happiest mode of life for either normal man or woman is found in 

 marriage, that no career which frustrates the experiences of family life can 

 compensate for it. It is for this outcome that nature has prepared man- 

 kind from almost the very beginning of life on the earth. To insure the 

 most satisfactory outcome, the mutual affection of the participants should 

 be a matter of growth based upon repeated association. There is usually 

 a period before courtship, in which one is in position to learn much about 

 the desirability or undesirabihty of a particular individual as a marriage 

 mate. Only an ill-balanced person is likely to rush blindly into matrimony. 

 Where properly consummated the man-woman relationships of life make 

 for a unity of interest and ripening of emotional satisfactions as do no other 

 experiences, and the spirit of mutual self-sacrifice and love thus engendered 

 flowers into altruism and universal good will. And finally, as the fires of 

 life burn lower and lower, the fires of love drop down to flames of gentler 

 tempo, so that the happily mated pair are content to let them purr along 

 in a pleasant glow of mutual admiration and devotion. 



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