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tive Indispensable Laws that ought to be deeply engraven on 

 INIarble and Brass, and transmitted to Posterity in Letters 

 of Gold in civiliz'd Governments. I call them Laws, and not 

 a simple Permission, which leaves Man at his liberty to do 

 what he pleases, according to his Fancy or Caprice. The first 

 Eve was not made to live a Virgin, but to become a ]\Iother 

 and begin to People the World ; and the Eve's of the follow- 

 ing Ages are not given us, let 'em be what they will, but to 

 perpetuate the Work of the Creation. If there are a sort of 

 Men, who like those vile Insects, of which some speak, grow 

 out of Mud and Corruption, let those ^Nlen live by them- 

 selves as long as they please, and wallow as much as they 

 please in the Filth and Ordure of their Origin. But 'tis not 

 thus, that the Xoble Pace of the Children of Adam are Im- 

 mortaliz'd. A single Man, to a single Woman, are not each 

 properly speaking, but a part of themselves. These two 

 half's together, make one whole. How unjust and cruel is it, 

 to keep these imperfect Portions always naturally desiring 

 to be joyn'd and destin'd to L^nion by Eternal Wisdom^ in a 

 state of Separation. Let us therefore conclude thus, Dear 

 Companion, that Women are entirely all that's Fine in the 

 World, all that is Lovely, all that is Necessary ; and that we 

 ought to be unspeakably pleas 'd in Loving them, and being 

 belov'd by them, as also in seeing them bring forth, and 

 breed up the Pledges they give of Mutual Love. Call them 

 Yoaks or Fetters, or what you please ; and give the Union of 

 Marriage the odious Xame of Chains, but let us remember 

 we are never weary of enjoying what we Love, and should 

 not think it a tiresom slavery, to keep our Treasure a long 

 time. Our sorrowful and imperfect Society, can have no 



1 Videia Mojiiere decelehrer U Mariage, in the old French Huguenot 

 prayer-book. " Et ce saint Mariage institue de Dieu est de telle vertu, 

 que par icelui le marl n'a point la puissance de son corps, mais la 

 femme ; aussi lafemme n'a point la puissance de son corps maisle mari. 

 C'est pourquoi etans conjoints de Dieu, ilsnepeuveutetre separez," etc. 



