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EUROPA IN LIMBO-Robert Briffault- Scribner...
...more or less durable connection between male and female, lasting beyond the mere act of propagation till after the birth of offspring," is fundamental in human society, growing out of the necessities of life in primitive and modern communities. This theory brings him into opposition with such writers as Briffault and Iwan Bloch, who have maintained that primitive societies were promiscuous and that the family, as a relatively recent development in human society, will eventually disappear. Dr. Westermarck says that he has examined the evidence in detail and has come to the conclusion that complete freedom in sexual relations...
EUROPA- Robert Briffault- Scribner...
...tome of 504 pages, For Better, Not For Worse surveys the whole of marriage and many another subject in the practiced manner of a platform denouncer. Dr. Maier quotes from such sources as Dancing Master William P. Rivers, Raymond Duncan, Proverbs, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, John Bunyan, Robert Briffault, Dora Russell, Mme Blavatsky, Mary Baker Eddy, Humbert Wolfe, Francis Bacon, Solomon, Dr. Johnson, Tolstoy, Cardinal Faulhaber, Kathleen Norris, Prince von Bülow, Martin Luther, Arthur Davison Ficke, Erdman Harris, The Spirit of Lord Northcliffe, Swedenborg, Joseph Choate and countless others-all out of one of the most remarkable memories...
...grew more & more neurotic. He met Mussolini when the future dictator was a Socialist editor, heard Jaures speak, listened to Balfour discuss European affairs. Although such contacts seem plausible enough for one of Julian's station in life, the famed historic figures seem even less real than Author Briffault's imaginary characters, who are often little more than mouthpieces for ideas and opinions. Julian took up science, plunged into work, loafed at Capri with elegant specimens of Europe's moral decay. When he met Zena again he found her married to a noble Russian pervert, became...