Common Objections Answered : Impairing the Sanctity of the Family.

The objections commonly set up to this view are based upon the vague idea that to tamper with the marriage bond in any way would be to destroy marrige altogether, and with it the institution of the famly; and this idea has its root in the sacerdotalist view that the belief in the sanctity of marriage and of the family, instead of being the outcome of something inherent in human nature, is the impress of an extrinsic power acting humanity Sacerdotalists in all ages have sought to impose upon mankind as divine, laws of their own devising. This is an inversion of cause and effect, for laws have not made human nature, but human nature has made the laws : men imagine that when they are explaining facts they are somehow creating them, as the meteorologist in Russilas observed the clouds till he came to think that he caused the rain, It is as absurd to thing that the so called sacred laws of marraige as taught by the churuhes produced the belief in the sanctity of marriage, and that the destruction of marriage must ensure upon their relaxation, as it is to suppose that the conscience was created by a belief in hall and will perish when hell ceases to be credible. There is no more cause to fear that such relaxation would csuse men and women to rush into all kinds of sexual irregularities than that they would wallow is wickedness like swine in filth if they ceaseed to believe in hell. "The average man, quite apart from any religions theories, marries a wife with the intention of remaining mirried to her. Indeed, the more femly we believe that the permanence of marriage is approved and willed by God, the more firmly we must believe that such permanence has in it nothing arbitrary, but that God wills it because man's nature is most completely satisfied by it."