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Rh basic character of all things. We are no longer willing to accept tradition. Men with hammers enter boldly into the sacred precincts of any temple and break down any and all idols. This is an age of vandalism.

Rather it is an age of inquiry, for it is a new age, and everything hitherto accepted must be questioned. Everywhere men are investigating, not always in a spirit to know what is true, but because the old is being attacked, and the breaking of idols is an interesting pastime.

But the old is being overturned, and with many the hope is to be able to rebuild on better foundations.

Probably this latter idea is the spirit of the age, to rebuild a better and a saner world, one more rational and worthy. And it seems necessary to discard everything that does not measure up to new standards.

Yes, the sacred institution of marriage is being attacked, attacked boldly, ruthlessly even.

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 priest and worshippers and profaning the altar. The intruder would have been tom limb from limb. Rh