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life, that act of Immanity, without contradiction the 

 most important, should be the one of which there should 

 have been the least supposed necessity for regulation. 

 or which has been regulated the least beneficially. ' ' * 



''But it may be said that the demands of nature 

 are, in the married state, not only legal, but should be 

 physically right. So they are, when our physical life 

 is right; but it must not be forgotten that few live in 

 a truly physical rectitude." t 



"Among cattle, the sexes meet by common instinct 

 and common will ; it is reserved for the human animal 

 to treat the female as a mere victim to his lust. ' ' $ 



"He is an ill husband that uses his ivife as a man 

 treats a harlot, having no other end but pleasure: con- 

 cerning which our best rule is, that although in this, 

 as in eating and drinking, there is an appetite to be 

 satisfied, which cannot be done without pleasing that 

 desire; yet, since that desire and satisfaction were in- 

 tended by nature for other ends, they should never be 

 separated from those ends," 



"It is a sad truth that many married persons, think- 

 ing that the flood-gates of liberty are set wide open, 

 without measures or restraints (so they sail in the 

 channel), have felt the final rewards of intemperance 

 and lust by their unlawful using of lawful permis- 

 sions. Only let each of them be temperate, and both 

 of them modest. ' ' § 



Says another writer very emphatically, " It is a com- 

 mon belief that a man and woman, because they are 

 legally united in marriage, are privileged to the un- 

 bridled exercise of amativeness. This is wrong. Na- 

 ture, in the exercise of her laws, recognizes no human 

 enactments, and is as prompt to punish any infringe- 

 ment of her laws in those who are legally married, as 



* Dunoyer. t Gardner. X Quarterly Tievieiv. | Jeremy Taylor. 



