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1818 Jan 14 Not Paul III Doctrine
1818 Jan 14

Not Paul

III Doctrine

Ch Asceticism

2

Divorce by consent

No tenable ground for his inhibition in this any more than in any of the preceding

cases can he find in any of the / the / acts or discourses―in a word in the religion

of Jesus.

Dissolution of the marriage by the sole will of the male alone, no: on / to / every

such act of tyranny and injustice he has in the clearest character imprinted the

stamp of prohibition.

The will of the male alone would have in this case for its source the interest of

the male alone: the interest of the strongest to which the interest of the weakest of

the parties would thus be sacrificed: such is / thus saith / the law of utility: thus

saith the law of Jesus. JB footnote (in

pencil) at this point: ‘Quote a passage’.
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    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

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    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 […?]
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    § Lord’s Supper

    Thus far the antecedent―setting aside the false intimation tacked to it, trivial the simple and innoxious statement of a simple and to all but the Apostles themselves who alone were concerned in it an / a comparatively at least / immaterial incident.

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