Capitolo 63
instinct of maintenance. Crews as all the other animals, have two principal functions:
food his/her his/her own organism, and to reproduce his/her kind. Ancestral habit
it conducts him/it, when mature, to choose him a consort--because he loves him.
Drive him/it, it exhorts him, it irresistibly goads him/it. If this depth
impulse is missing to-day in some great part of our run, there really
it has to be correspondingly some deep and suitable reason for him. Doesn't do
I/you/he/she allow us to be mistaken himself/herself/themselves with a little deep insipidities for which you/they can do
sketch-rooms. This is the philosophy, even if place-prandial. I/you/he/she allow us to try
to take a perspective of philosophic of the question in matter, from the point of
advantage of a biological perspective.
Before you start to investigate the causes of a phenomenon _quelconque_,
'tis well to decide if the same phenomenon is there
you investigate.
Society that he/she takes in all--_not_ in the sense of those "forty families"
to that the term is tightened by Mrs. Charles Beresford--I doubt
if marriage is out very of way. Statistics show a certain
decreases, it is true, but not an alarming. Among to work
classes, I imagine men, and also the women, still frequently enough bridegrooms.
When they say people, the Young men" they won't get married him today", they intends the young men
in a particular stratum of society, it roughly limited from a hat of silk on
Sundays. Now, when I and You were young (I take him/it for granted that You
and I am approaching me to the fifties) the young men got married him; also inside this
limited area, 'the twas their healthy way in the life to form an affection
soon with some beautiful girl in their his/her own set, and to start at least with
the idea of sposarsila. Toward that destination of theirs they worked; for that end
they bore and they sacrificed a lot of things. True, even then, the long one
appointment was the rule; but the appointment along same it intended of it
impulse of persistent, of the strong marriage-custodies of impetus. The desire of