IN HEAVEN.
MAKING MARRIAGES, SCIENTIST’S VIEW. LONDON. Oct. 30. “Shall science’s cold voice strive to dictate to love’s ape-old passion?’ asked Dr. Bernard Hollander, - 'addressing the Ethnological- Society, of which he is president and founder. Dr. Hollander answered his question ih the affirmative, although he admitted that successful, marriages could not, .be. guaranteed.., even if experts selected, the partners. Nevertheless, he said, we knew enough to rob this • most popular of all lotteries of. the woret;>'.lqttery characteristics. .Marriage "was not a jnatter /jdf a lovers’ evening out, but of intimate association. Only compatple persons could face it without disaster, yet man still • allowed hjs ,|flmost unalloyed primeval (instinct f' to guide him 'in the matter, forgetting his commonrsense and judgment and : the usual df. .sanity that he displayed in other problems. Man praised domesticity, and economy, yet he married a maiden .whose idleness kept her fingers soft and white. . ,
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10740, 10 November 1928, Page 7
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