romance

• Prince’s staff fostered courtship

66:5.29These lead­ers con­tributed much to bring­ing about in­ter­tribal mar­riages. They fos­tered court­ship and mar­riage af­ter due de­lib­er­a­tion and full op­por­tu­nity to be­come ac­quainted. The purely mil­i­tary war dances were re­fined and made to serve valu­able so­cial ends. Many com­pet­i­tive games were in­tro­duced, but these an­cient folk were a se­ri­ous peo­ple; lit­tle hu­mor graced these early tribes. Few of these prac­tices sur­vived the sub­se­quent dis­in­te­gra­tion of plan­e­tary in­sur­rec­tion.

• Andite contribution

83:2.5In­creas­ing love, ro­mance, and per­sonal se­lec­tion in pre­mar­i­tal court­ship are an And­ite con­tri­bu­tion to the world races. The re­la­tions be­tween the sexes are evolv­ing fa­vor­ably; many ad­vanc­ing peo­ples are grad­u­ally sub­sti­tut­ing some­what ide­al­ized con­cepts of sex at­trac­tion for those older mo­tives of util­ity and own­er­ship. Sex im­pulse and feel­ings of af­fec­tion are be­gin­ning to dis­place cold cal­cu­la­tion in the choos­ing of life part­ners.

• of courtship largely responsible for increasing divorce

83:7.7The high de­gree of imag­i­na­tion and fan­tas­tic ro­mance en­ter­ing into court­ship is largely re­spon­si­ble for the in­creas­ing di­vorce ten­den­cies among mod­ern Oc­ci­den­tal peo­ples, all of which is fur­ther com­pli­cated by woman’s greater per­sonal free­dom and in­creased eco­nomic lib­erty. Easy di­vorce, when the re­sult of lack of self-con­trol or fail­ure of nor­mal per­son­al­ity ad­just­ment, only leads di­rectly back to those crude so­ci­etal stages from which man has emerged so re­cently and as the re­sult of so much per­sonal an­guish and racial suf­fer­ing.

• ancients were great believers in love charms

88:5.2Mag­i­cal charms were con­cocted from a great va­ri­ety of things: hu­man flesh, tiger claws, croc­o­dile teeth, poi­son plant seeds, snake venom, and hu­man hair. The bones of the dead were very mag­i­cal. Even the dust from foot­prints could be used in magic. The an­cients were great be­liev­ers in love charms. Blood and other forms of bod­ily se­cre­tions were able to in­sure the magic in­flu­ence of love.