"It's perfectly useless to ask people why they get married, but I fancy I know the reason, just the same. They may think it is one reason or another, but the real reason, to my mind, is an old one: The Eternal Purpose is making use of them to carry on the business of the world."
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Clara Cahill Park, "To Carry on the Race", in "What is the Essential Purpose of Marriage?" Boston Globe (28 April 1912): 46.
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Clara Cahill Park
Clara Cahill Park (July 2, 1868 – October 28, 1951) was an American writer, artist, and social reformer, especially interested in the movement for public pensions for widows with children, as vice-president of the Massachusetts Congress of Mothers.
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