Human beings, like any other creatures, are solely driven by their fundamental instinct of self-preservation. Although it may feel self-assuring to think that we are superior to other animals, but deep down, the self-preservation instinct is alike in all living beings, and is the prime mover of all their actions. The Institution of Marriage While we may imagine that the institution of marriage is based on ‘love’ (biologically, there is only ‘sexual attraction’), the reality is that this institution is bound by the principle of utility. Husband and wife mutually nurture each other in a give-and-take marital relationship, and are dependent on each other for physical, emotional, spiritual,