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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.
==Defiinitions==
==Definitions==
*1.a. Usu. with the and of. The characteristic [[quality]] of a [[person]] or [[thing]]; (hence) [[character]], [[nature]]. Obs.
*1.a. Usu. with the and of. The characteristic [[quality]] of a [[person]] or [[thing]]; (hence) [[character]], [[nature]]. Obs.
*5. Theatre and Film. Any portable object (now usually other than an article of costume) used in a play, film, etc., as required by the action; a prop. Chiefly in pl. Cf. PROP n.6
*5. Theatre and Film. Any portable object (now usually other than an article of costume) used in a play, film, etc., as required by the action; a prop. Chiefly in pl. Cf. PROP n.6
*6. fig. A means to an end; a person or thing to be made use of; an instrument or tool. Obs.
*6. fig. A means to an end; a person or thing to be made use of; an instrument or tool. Obs.
==References==
==References==
# property definition". http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/property.html.
# property definition". http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/property.html.