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definition of marriage

By admin | September 8, 2009

According to Confucius, “marriage is the union (of the representatives) of two different surnames, in friendship and in love, in order to continue the posterity of the former sages, and to furnish those who shall preside at the sacrifices to heaven and earth, at those in the ancestral temple, and at those at the altars to the spirits of the land and grain.” Philosopher, historian, and literary essayist Thomas De Quincey defined marriage as “a union between two persons, who lived in harmony so absolute with each other, as to be independent of the world outside.” The primary definiton of Marriage in Merriam-Webster is the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law.

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