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1818 Jan y 4 Not Paul 59
1818 Jan y 4

Not Paul

59

III Doctrine

Ch Asceticism

10

§ Inconsistency

In and in relation to the connubial union in compliance with those rules of good

breeding which the laws of decency and delicacy combine in prescribing / dictating /,

and from which pleasure itself in its most exquisite form has so much to gain / is so

great a degree to gain / when the motives which with reference to the […?] have acted

as instruments / commencement of the union / and with reference to the continuance of

it continue to act as cement[?] are in the course of common conversation[?] brought

upon the carpet / become / constitute / the subject of consideration / contemplation

//, the only one of which express mention is made are that sympathy which with purely

social affection of the mind which with little difference is capable without any

admixture of sensual appetite of having place between two persons of the same sex;

this purely mental pleasure heightened perhaps by more or less of that perception[?]

of ideal beauty which is not less capable of being afforded by a picture or a statue,

together with a desire of the means of affording gratification to that sympathy of

which the fruit / issue / of the body are the object, and the parental relation the

cause.

But when all these ostensible adjuncts / accidents / are respectively abstracted,

adjuncts / accidents / to each of which it may alike happen to be in existence are

abstracted, what remains but that appetite of which alone in the whole groupe of

motives the existence is certain? and when thus gratified in the ordinary mode in

what does it differ from itself when gratified in any eccentric mode? Marginal note at this point: ‘What difference,

any more than between the appetite for nourishment when gratified / satisfied / by

turtle or venison and the same appetite when bran oil or carrion and nothing

better is employed in satisfying it.’ what difference is there between this

appetite when gratified in the above ordinary mode and the same appetite when

gratified in any eccentric mode?
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