© 1959 William S. Sadler
© 1961 Urantia Foundation
- The sex urge is sufficient to bring men and women together for reproduction. UB 82:1.1
- Marriage is the ancestor of civilization’s most sublime institution—the home. UB 84:0.1
- The purpose of marriage is to insure racial survival—not just personal happiness. UB 68:2.9
- The evolution of marriage is the story of sex control by social, civil, and religious restrictions. UB 82:2.1
- Women’s low status during Old Testament times reflects the mores of the herdsmen. UB 84:3.2
- In primitive times marriage was the price of social distinction—a wife enhanced social standing. UB 82:3.4
- Man’s great danger is the unrestricted multiplication of inferior racial strains. UB 82:6.11
- The family is the master civilizer. UB 82:0.2
- Marriages are not made in heaven. UB 83:1.4
- Marriage is a social instiution embracing self-maintenance, self-perpetuation, and self-gratification. UB 84:0.3
- It was the factory, not religion, that emancipated woman. UB 84:5.7
- Woman has always been the standard-bearer—the spiritual leader. UB 84:6.4
- Marriage has always been closely linked with both property and religion. UB 82:4.1
- Marriage is a social program of antagonistic co-operation. UB 84:6.2
- There were four sorts of wives under polygamy:
- Legal wives.
- Wives of affection.
- Concubines.
- Slave wives. UB 83:5.5
- Monogamy has always been the idealistic goal of marriage, and it is the yardstick measuring the advance of civilization. UB 83:6.7
- Early woman was not a friend and lover—rather a servant and childbearer. UB 84:4.3
- It was a great advance when the wife could own property. UB 84:4.10
- But primitive women did not pity themselves. UB 84:4.11
- Man did not intentionally seize woman’s rights—it was all an unconscious process. UB 84:5.4
- Will modern woman be worthy of her newly won dignity and equality? UB 84:5.10
- Divorce will persist as long as young people are not properly prepared for marriage. UB 83:7.8
- The family-council of the Andites would be helpful today. UB 84:7.29
- The differences between men and women persist throughout the ascendant career—even in the Corps of Finality. UB 84:6.6