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Rh 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 be "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. Rh