A man is monogamous even if he is only monogamousfor a month; love is eternal even if it is only eternal for a month.
But, as I have said, there is perhaps no place in literature where we feel more vividly the sense of this monogamous instinct in man than in David Copperfield.
That when officers, lawyers, judges, soldiers and Gentiles in general go to Utah they can find the same conveniences and accommodations that are to be met with everywhere among the virtuous Gentile monogamous Christians!
But while he uncovered for an instant the corruptions of monogamous Christian communities, in order to reprove their hypocrisy, he by no means regarded that exposure as a defense of plural marriage.
The intention of the law-making power, in enacting the law, was to protect monogamous marriage by prohibiting all other marriage, whether evidenced by a ceremony, or by conduct and circumstances alone.
The monogamous family has indisputably been the civilizing unit of the pre-mechanical civilized state.
Nor would we give the impression that this one-sided idea of what constitutes a monogamous marriage is confined to the male.
Siam, and concludes that the proportion of male to female births is the same as from monogamous unions.
I have noticed these cases, as rendering it probable that wild monogamous species might readily become either temporarily or permanently polygamous.
What a contrast is presented between the sexes of the polygamous peacock or pheasant, and the monogamous guinea-fowl or partridge!
Gill remarks that it is with the polygamous seals, the males of which are well known to fight savagely together, that the sexes differ much in size; the monogamous species differing but little.
Certain strictly monogamous species likewise hold nuptial assemblages; this seems to be the case in Scandinavia with one of the ptarmigans, and their leks last from the middle of March to the middle of May.
We realise now why Hera, the tutelary goddess of the newly introduced monogamous system, hated Dionysus and attempted to kill him before he was born.
A long road, marked by numerous compromises and limitations, led from casual intercourse to the final establishment of the monogamous system.
This longing and the wish for legitimate heirs gradually overcame promiscuity and, in Greece, led to the establishment of the monogamous system.
The seeker of love is by nature polygamous, while the slave of love is, as a rule, monogamous (and consequently has little success with the opposite sex).
Among other animals monogamous union is not accompanied by any such discordant and unnatural features.
As we are a monogamous race, there will be no such drastic and cruel selection among competing males as would eliminate the vast majority as unfit.
It cannot be said that the contention is so well established in the case of monogamous species.
But how can there be competition in the case of monogamous species?
Thus, it is apparently a projection of monogamous marriage into the past, into the beginnings of a race, a tribe, or of mankind.
Furthermore, the monogamous marriage of the present was projected back into an indefinite past, where it found final termination in the idea of a primal pair of ancestors.
This latter factor comes to reinforce the former at that stage of development, particularly, which is characterized by the dissolution of totemic institutions and the re-emergence of the monogamous family.
In the form of father-right, paternal rule prevails even in the case of the primitive monogamous family.
Wherever, therefore, monogamous marriage is not firmly established, legend accounts for the origin of men and peoples in various other ways.
The reason for the almost universal occurrence of monogamous marriage is to be found in the uniformity of the conditions of life and of the social impulses.
To her, and not to man, is due the honour of having founded the monogamous family.
Why, then, should not man have carried over monogamousmarriage from his animal state into his primitive culture?
The enlarged monogamous family, the so-called ancient or joint family, makes its appearance.
The legend of an original ancestral pair, however, is not to be found beyond the limits of the monogamous family.
Thus, the restoration of the monogamous family came as a result of political organization.
Our monogamous code-whose iological value is clearly indicated by its adoption by most of the higher animals (not counting the domesticated animals, whose morals have been hopelessly ruined)-stands among the wisest of our ideals.
But after whatever doubts and wanderings, the man of mature experience comes back to the monogamous ideal with the conviction that in it lies not only our salvation but our truest happiness.
We must therefore begin by recapitulating the fundamental reasons for our monogamous ideal.
Did man begin by being monogamous or polygamous, but, in either case, the master of his own home and the assured central point of his family relations?
On this first question, let us grant to Sir Henry Maine, to Mr. Darwin, and to common sense that if the very earliest men were extremely animal in character, their unions while they lasted were probably monogamous or polygamous.
A taste for sexual variety is built up so that the individual is unwilling to commit himself to a monogamous union.
The greatest amount of happiness is produced by a monogamous system, since in a polygamous society so many men must remain unmarried and so many women are dissatisfied with having to share their mates with others.
Assuming this, then adaptation to the condition of monogamous society represents race progress.
Did this monogamous sentiment exist "always and everywhere?
As a matter of fact this line has no more to do with the "true monogamous instinct, the absorbing passion for one," than with Julius Caesar.
In the monogamous family much greater attention can be given to the training of children by both parents.
It is a fact that Anglo-Saxon civilization has always refused legal recognition to non-monogamous marriage.
By this statement I do not mean to deny that there are many women, and a few men, who have beenmonogamous all their lives; nor that there are many couples living together happily in monogamous marriage.
Of course, I know some noble and sincere people who do not believe in the marriage contract, and refuse to be bound by law; but these people are as monogamous as I am, even more tightly bound by honor than if they were duly married.
I have adopted it, after watching a great number of people try other than monogamous sex arrangements, and seeing their chances of happiness and success wrecked by the pressure of economic forces.
It is my belief that monogamous love is the most desirable of human sex relationships, the most fruitful in happiness and spiritual development.
So we shall have to begin at the beginning and find new reasons for monogamous love, a new basis of marriage other than the protection of private property.
So far in this discussion we have assumed that love means monogamous love.
The laws and institutions of civilized society pretend to defend this relationship, but the briefest study of the facts will convince anyone that these laws and institutions are not really meant to protect monogamous love.
Let us first consider the question, just what are the true and proper implications ofmonogamous love?
There is no use talking to them about monogamous love, because all they understand is hypocrisy.
Again, the patriarchal system which tolerated polygamy has everywhere been destroyed when it came into conflict with monogamous races, such as our own, which involve still further restraint in the sexual relation.
It would seem, therefore, as though themonogamous marriage were the keystone of our present civilization, for upon it has been built the family, and the education and self-restraint which family life involves.
In monogamous species the cock frequently chooses his spouse; selection is mutual.
I speak here of monogamous species; among polygamous ones there must of necessity be considerable competition for hens.
The idea, therefore, that plural marriage is a menace to the general monogamous system is without foundation.
In the first place, their numbers are increased much more rapidly than could be done by the monogamous system which is in vogue in our land.
Polygamous Tendencies in Man= We now come to the last point in our discussion: the polygamous or varietist tendencies in the male versus the monogamous tendencies in the female.
To a great percentage of men a strictlymonogamous life is either irksome, painful, disagreeable or an utter impossibility.
But as soon as marriage was introduced, whether monogamous or polygamous, jealousy led to the inculcation of female virtue; and this, being honored, spread to the unmarried females.
In many ages of the world there have been states of society in which the family has had as good a foundation in polygamous as it has had in monogamous unions.
But if paternity is dubious in monogamous marriage even, it is surely beyond the possibility of determination where polyandry prevails.
At the time when Morgan lived among the Iroquois, he found that among them existed a monogamous marriage, easily dissolved by either side, termed by him the "pairing family.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "monogamous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
