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83:6.1 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogamy Monogamy] is [[monopoly]]; it is [[good]] for those who [[attain]] this desirable [[state]], but it tends to [[work]] a [[biologic]] hardship on those who are not so fortunate. But quite regardless of the [[effect]] on the [[individual]], monogamy is decidedly best for the [[children]].

83:6.1 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogamy Monogamy] is [[monopoly]]; it is [[good]] for those who [[attain]] this desirable [[state]], but it tends to [[work]] a [[biologic]] hardship on those who are not so fortunate. But quite regardless of the [[effect]] on the [[individual]], monogamy is decidedly best for the [[children]].

83:6.2 The earliest monogamy was due to [[force]] of circumstances, [[poverty]]. Monogamy is [[cultural]] and societal, [[artificial]] and unnatural, that is, unnatural to [[evolutionary]] [[man]]. It was wholly [[natural]] to the purer [[Nodites]] and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:4._THE_VIOLET_RACE Adamites] and has been of great [[cultural]] [[value]] to all advanced races.

83:6.2 The earliest monogamy was due to [[force]] of circumstances, [[poverty]]. Monogamy is [[cultural]] and societal, [[artificial]] and unnatural, that is, unnatural to [[evolutionary]] [[man]]. It was wholly [[natural]] to the purer [[Nodites]] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:4._THE_VIOLET_RACE Adamites] and has been of great [[cultural]] [[value]] to all advanced races.

83:6.3 The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaldean Chaldean] [[tribes]] recognized the right of a [[wife]] to impose a premarital [[pledge]] upon her spouse not to take a second wife or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concubine concubine]; both the [[Greeks]] and the [[Romans]] favored monogamous marriage. [[Ancestor]] [[worship]] has always fostered [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogamy monogamy], as has the [[Christian]] [[error]] of regarding marriage as a [[sacrament]]. Even the elevation of the [[standard of living]] has consistently militated against [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamy plural wives]. By the time of [[Michael]]'s [[advent]] on [[Urantia]] practically all of the civilized world had [[attained]] the level of [[theoretical]] monogamy. But this passive monogamy did not mean that [[mankind]] had become habituated to the [[practice]] of real pair marriage.

83:6.3 The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaldean Chaldean] [[tribes]] recognized the right of a [[wife]] to impose a premarital [[pledge]] upon her spouse not to take a second wife or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concubine concubine]; both the [[Greeks]] and the [[Romans]] favored monogamous marriage. [[Ancestor]] [[worship]] has always fostered [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogamy monogamy], as has the [[Christian]] [[error]] of regarding marriage as a [[sacrament]]. Even the elevation of the [[standard of living]] has consistently militated against [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamy plural wives]. By the time of [[Michael]]'s [[advent]] on [[Urantia]] practically all of the civilized world had [[attained]] the level of [[theoretical]] monogamy. But this passive monogamy did not mean that [[mankind]] had become habituated to the [[practice]] of real pair marriage.

83:6.8 Pair marriage [[favors]] and fosters that [[intimate]] [[understanding]] and [[effective]] [[co-operation]] which is best for [[parental]] [[happiness]], child welfare, and [[social]] [[efficiency]]. Marriage, which began in crude [[coercion]], is gradually [[evolving]] into a magnificent [[institution]] of [[self]]-[[culture]],[[self]]-[[control]], self-[[expression]], and self-[[perpetuation]].

83:6.8 Pair marriage [[favors]] and fosters that [[intimate]] [[understanding]] and [[effective]] [[co-operation]] which is best for [[parental]] [[happiness]], child welfare, and [[social]] [[efficiency]]. Marriage, which began in crude [[coercion]], is gradually [[evolving]] into a magnificent [[institution]] of [[self]]-[[culture]],[[self]]-[[control]], self-[[expression]], and self-[[perpetuation]].

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