The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-12
DR.. SCUDDER
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From the earliest ages of which his
/ tory has anything to tell us and the
most primitive tribes known to mod.
| ern science marriage has been safe
guarded with restrictions which clear
/ ly prove that man has been schooled
/ by the stern law of the survival of
/ the tittest to treat this institution 'as
vital to the preservation of the spe-
cies Primitive man knows nothing
about social survival but evolutionary
forces by killing off or shelving
tribes with inferior marriage regula-
tions has permitted those with bet
/ ter customs and laws embodying
/ those customs to survive and develop.
/ 1t thus has come about that mono
gamy the marriage of one man and
one woman until death parts them
/ has been the ideal towards which hut
man society has consistently tended
It has not reached it but its evolution
airy progress has been steadily along
the line of increasing approach there
to- In the course of this development
marriage has served certain great
ends
The first and most fundamental Of
these functions of human marriage
has. of course, been the preservation
of the species Former President
Eliots four laws of The Happiest
Marriage are first, social equality;
second, a measurably similar degree
of intellectual training; third, relig-
iouS sympathy and fourth. fruitful
ness in children. The club of eastern
women who first heard his lecture on
this topic nearly mobbed him for his
last point. 1t is one of the few ques-
tions in which he and his distin-
guished pupil, Colonel Roosevelt,
seem to agree. OF course this, the
physical basis of marriage, is its one
essential. The institution exists Tor
the purpose of begetting healthy Off
spring, and society is more interested
in the production of physically sound
children than in any other problem.
1t does not coarsen or cheaper mar
riage to lay the greatest stress upon
this point. When society fully under
stands this principle and acts upon
it by preventing those who are fou'ly
diseased or otherwise incapable Of
propagating healthy offspring, from
begetting or bearing children, the spe-
cies will move upward with wonder
fully accelerated progress.
The second function of human mar
riage is to uplift the race by develop
ing intellectual power Years ago
John Fiske wrote his name high upon
the roll of nineteenth century sci
entists by demonstrating that man
owed much of his prominence over
all other animals to the frightening
period of his infancy The helpless
/ ness of his babyhood necessita;ed
wider differentiation of the functions
. VI the SIAtoi I'd ' Z ul6IlllNIiNt llltdullS
to the words mother and father, and
created the home as the most per-
feet school for training the mind
which man has been able to evolve
Ancient Sparta tried to negative this
process of evolution by abolishing the
home, and found that her experiment
meant suicide. Modern society, after
centuries of experience in the care
of orphans, has been driven to the
policy of finding homes for its tiny
charges wherever possible. Men have
been utterly unable to grow any
school or university that can APP
proach the home as the ideal center
/ for cultivating intellect. Improve the
home if you wish to develop the hui
man mind. This means safeguard its
interests and maintain it's integrity
at any cost. 1t goes without saying
that polyandry, polygamy, free love
and divorce are and must be the
deadliest foes of the home which
fourishes only where monogamy pre-
walls.
But marriage subserves a still high
err social end and has as a third func-
ton the promotion of the moral evo-
lutions of the race. The home is the
ideal ethical school. 1t is the theater
upon which move the types of love
that make up the whole of inter-
human affection. Everyone of these
is different. They inhere in the fiji
teen relationships of the normal
home those of husband and wife and
wife to husband, father to son and
son to father, fathet to daughter and
daughter to father, mother to son and
son to mother, mother to daughter
and daughter to mother, brother TO
to brother and sister to sister, aud
lastly, friend to friend. The church
long ago capitulated TO the home as
the diVinpst institution unOn nortb