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This is the first 1,000 characters of 1497 words (5.99 pages) in the essay titled Marriage Bonding of The Soul of Big Business Marriage: A Bonding Of The Soul Or Big Business?According to the encyclopedia marriage is a social institution uniting men and women. Although marriage customs vary greatly from one culture to another, the importance of the institution is universally acknowledged. In some societies, community interests in children, in the bonds between families, and in the ownership of property established by a marriage are such that special devices and customs are created to protect these values. Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. This bit of cynical witticism was penned by the French writer Voltaire. While love may in fact sometimes smile upon the cowardly, it seems likely that surviving the adventure of marriage breeds courage (Flexner 124). The earliest known form of marriage was Marriage by Capture, in which a man invaded another tribe and kidnapped a woman whom he judged to be potentially a good slave and hardy worker. She was, in effect, bounty, prey to be conquered--testimony to his valor and muscle--a trophy. Although this barbarism became obsolete with the birth of Christianity it remained legal in England until the thirteenth century and occurred periodically among southern Slavs until the 1800’s ( Seligson 19). In the first century Rome marriage was a private act, which did not require the sanction of any public authority. Bride and groom did not have to appear before the equivalent of a priest or justice of the peace. No ... |
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Keywords: marriage customs, marriage contract, witticism, birth of christianity, voltaire, southern slavs, cynical, social institution, thirteenth century, symbolic act, private act, community interests, justice of the peace, written document, bride and groom, social affair, private ceremony, french writer, dowry, barbarism