id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _003394119 Connell, Francis J. (Francis Jeremiah), 1888-1967. Marriage : human or divine? 1940 .txt text/plain 12891 775 69 The physical basis of marriage is the bodily adaptation of each sex to union with the other; its moral basis is the ethical principle, admitted by even the most primitive races, that a man and woman may not lawfully enjoy sexual intercourse unless they are pledged to each other by some manner of formal agreement making them hus- band and wife. The basis of these errors is the failure to recognize the sacredness of marriage. cache/_003394119.txt txt/_003394119.txt