The new and sudden substitution of the more [[ideal]] but extremely [[individual]]istic love motive in marriage for the older and long-established '''property''' motive, has unavoidably caused the marriage institution to become temporarily unstable. Man's marriage motives have always far [[transcend]]ed actual marriage morals, and in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the Occidental ideal of marriage has suddenly far outrun the self-centered and but partially controlled [[sex]] impulses of the races. The [[presence]] of large numbers of unmarried persons in any [[society]] indicates the temporary breakdown or the transition of the mores. | The new and sudden substitution of the more [[ideal]] but extremely [[individual]]istic love motive in marriage for the older and long-established '''property''' motive, has unavoidably caused the marriage institution to become temporarily unstable. Man's marriage motives have always far [[transcend]]ed actual marriage morals, and in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the Occidental ideal of marriage has suddenly far outrun the self-centered and but partially controlled [[sex]] impulses of the races. The [[presence]] of large numbers of unmarried persons in any [[society]] indicates the temporary breakdown or the transition of the mores. |