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The marriage tie becomes possessed of a history and takes to itself traditions. this history and these traditions form a great fund, to which changing conditions and growing imagination constantly add. and the traditions, more especially, bear heavily upon the individual, overmastering his natural expression of the love instinct and forcing him to an artificial expression of that love instinct. he loves, not as his savage forbears loved, but as his group loves.

-Jack London

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The Marriage Tie Becomes Possessed Of A

Jack London

The marriage tie becomes possessed of a history and takes to itself traditions. this history and these traditions form a great fund, to which changing conditions and growing imagination constantly add. and the traditions, more especially, bear heavily upon the individual, overmastering his natural expression of the love instinct and forcing him to an artificial expression of that love instinct. he loves, not as his savage forbears loved, but as his group loves.

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