The choosing of a wife by family suffrage is not simply an exponent of the impersonal state of things, it is a power toward bringing such a state of things about.

A hermit seldom develops to his full possibilities, and the domestic variety is no exception to the rule.

A man who is linked to some one that toward him remains a cipher lacks surroundings inciting to psychological growth, nor is he more favorably circumstanced because all his ancestors have been similarly circumscribed.
As if to make assurance doubly sure, natural selection here steps in to further the process.

To prove this with all the rigidity of demonstration desirable is in the present state of erotics beyond our power.

Until our family trees give us something more than mere skeletons of dead branches, we must perforce continue ignorant of the science of grafts.