The Truth About Marriage
Los Angeles CA: Haynes, 1930.
Hardcover. Very Good- with no dust jacket. Item #16503
Spine head fray, light cover wear, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; SIGNED "With the best wishes of the Author" on front free endpaper. Prominent Swedenborgian / New Church minister's analysis of marriage, and arguments in favor of traditional marriage. "In the past traditional marriage was too strongly entrenched to talk of investigating it. The mere suggestion of such a thing was somewhat like entering a temple in the presence of a priest and worshipers and profaning the altar. The intruder would have been torn limb from limb. And yet authority - even the authority of tradition in the matter of marriage - has been necessary. Standards are always necessary. Without the authority of church and state upholding tradition there would have been little order in the world. But for the people who justly belong to the new age, who have thus accepted the scientific spirit, who want to know why they must do or not do the things that have always been done, the standard must inevitably by "Truth as authority, and not authority as truth. It is in this spirit that we desire to investigate, and discover, if we can, the truth about marriage." Surprisingly balanced and interesting work.; 153 pages; Signed by Author.
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