Marriage is not altogether determined by tbe desires of men ; if- is determined in part by tha preferences of women. Other things equal, women are attracted by men of power — physical, emotional, intellectual, and obviously their freedom of choice leads them in many cases to refuse inferior samples of men ; especially the malformed, the diseased, and those who are ill-developed, physically and mentally. So that, in so far as marriage is determined by female selection, the average result on men is that, while the best easily get wives, a certain proportion ot the worst are left without wives. This influence, therefore joins in bringing into the ranks of married men those mogt likely to be long lived and keeping in bachelorhood those least likely to be long-lived. — Herbert Spencer.
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 137, 19 June 1888, Page 3
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