People marry for various reasons: some because it is the custom, some for the sake of home life, because man is a dependent creature, and desires a companion in the joy and sorrow of life, or because marriage carries weight in the social world; for generally a house where a couple live is a home. Others again are tempted by rank, birth, position, wealth; and these marry the thing desired, and not the human being. Others have a wish to leave children, so that their name .may not pass from the earth, or the property they have collected fall into the hands of strangers; and some other few marry for love.