JB_161_310.xml

Title: [1818 Jan. 6 Not Paul 68]

Description: 1818 Jan. 6

Not Paul

68

Ch

2

By the dæmon of asceticism and the morality / system of morals / of which he is the

author / sprung from his loins / all these remedies are proscribed in the lump,

though in the application of the proscription different degrees of severity are

manifested the degree of severity manifested / exercised / is in the different cases

different.

1. Intercourse without cohabitation on such terms as on the part of the female

denominate it / rank it under the name of / prostitution.

Under the influence of asceticism Except in cases and on contingencies too narrow in

extent to be worth consideration in / on / so general a view on the part / side / in

the case // of the male this remedy is left free by law by the legal sanction so far

as depends upon the popular or moral as well as / [the] legal sanction left free; but

/ though / on the part / in the case / of the female it is by the popular or moral

[sanction] punished with exclusion from the society of such females as do not

transgress in this way or are not known to do so.

2. Cohabitation without marriage. To the state of things in question viz.

overpopulation considered in the character of a disorder, this mode of intercourse

when / if / considered in itself will scarcely be seen to produce any sensible effect

in the character of a remedy. But, by reason of the impermanence of the implied

contract / situation / of the condition in life thus produced, the tendency of it is

to cast down / transfer / depress // the female into the penal situation brought to

view in the preceding case.

JB_161_300.xml

Title: [1818 Jan y 4 Not Paul 58]

Description: 1818 Jan y 4

Not Paul

58

III Doctrine

Ch Asceticism

9

§ Inconsistency

In the ordinary mode, out of such a multitude (say as above three hundred) of acts of

sexual intercourse performed in the compass of a twelvemonth by producing conception

there be any one that is / proves / contributory to the ulterior result, here are 299

of which it is certain that they can not by possibility be contributory to any such

result. Not less plainly unconducive to the ultimate effect in question are these 299

operations performed in the ordinary mode than the same number of operations if

performed in any eccentric mode.

Of the whole number a portion it may be said have been performed before it could be

known of / in relation to / them respectively whether / but that / they were

contributory / conducive / and necessary to that same ultimate effect. True: but only

to a small portion of the whole number performed during the assumed period of

cohabitation does this plea apply: say to about 1/9 th. to the

large remainder it is utterly inapplicable.

Take the case of a female past the age of child-bearing. In this case in so far as

regards the contribution to the ultimate end in question sexual intercourse in the

ordinary mode differs not in the smallest degree from sexual intercourse in any

eccentric mode.

Take the case of a female who at the time being single whether in a state of

virginity or widowhood engages at any time after the cessation[?] of the prolific

faculty in the bonds of marriage. To any such purpose as that of the ultimate result

in question as well might the union whether of the female herself or her male

associate be made with a being of a different species or of the same sex.

JB_161_336.xml

Title: [1818 Jan 14 Not Paul III Doctrine]

Description: 1818 Jan 14

Not Paul

III Doctrine

Ch Asceticism

1 Other Remedies

§ Divorce by consent

§ Divorce by consent.

This is the remedy for the evils of an ill-assorted marriage the complicated the too

infinitely diversified the boundless mass of evil liable to result from / be among

the fruits of / an ill-assorted marriage. A / a / source of evil so copious could not

be left unimproved or unprotected by the dæmon of asceticism.

That the union of one man to one woman and that for life, except in case of

dissolution by consent, is of this species of contract the most natural mode as the

phrase is that the nature / circumstance / state // of the case admitts of: that in

the most extensively prevalent state of things, it is the mode the most likely to be

beneficial to both parties taken together―the most likely to be thought to be so―and

thence the most likely to be adopted, has been shewn by Bentham: [Ref.] that to the putting the matter upon the most

beneficial footing that the nature of the case admitts of has also and on the same

occasion been rendered apparent by the same hand. [Ref.]

What / That which / on this occasion can not to a certain extent be compelled by

law, as far as the power / efficiency / of punishment, contending with the

strongest MS ‘most strongest’.

appetite to those on which the preservation / life / of the individual depends under

the greatest difficulty of enforcement extends is the Sentence breaks off.

to any extent be compelled by law is the performance / rendering / of the

characteristic services to the female by an unwelcome male: that which to a certain

extent though that happily an extremely / a considerably / limited one is the loss of

those same services to both parties, by the obstacles opposed to the obtainment of

its gratification from other sources: and this is the object to which the dæmon on

this occasion the dæmon of asceticism directs his […?]