1818 Jan. 5

Not Paul

69

III Doctrine

Ch 4 Remedies interdicted

1 § 1 Remedies to evill of prolific mode interdicted

‘Error if supposed that for having destroyed an infant at birth a mother would be

less tender to another that she had.

‘Jesus is never good enough for them, these holy men: nothing will serve him the

very least of them―but he must be better than Jesus.’

Ch. 4. Asceticism continued.―Remedies interdicted

Among the consequences of the gratification when obtained in the ordinary mode may be

/ have been / seen a severer[?] tribe of evils, against which the nature of the case

suggests a set of remedies, the use of which without inconsistency[?] the principle

of utility would not without inconsistency condemn applicable the one or the other

according to the circumstances of the occasion but / and / which under the influence

of the principle / evil principle / of asceticism are condemned without reflection,

and punished without mercy. To this head may be referred

1. Sexual intercourse without cohabitation

2. Cohabitation without marriage in the terms of a contract for a momentary or other

short term / the present occasion / not extending beyond the present occasion: termed

prostitution in so far as in any other shape than that of the mutual gratification a

recompense is received, prostitution.

3. Marriage polygamous on both sides

5. Voluntary Abortion self procured abortion on the part [of] the female.

6. Power of breeding up or not during early infancy

4. Cohabitation with precautions employed in prevention of pregnancy / to prevent

conception /

7. Divorce by mutual consent.

On the circumstance of time depends the applicability /

appositeness / of these several remedies

By the overcharge and sterility the overcharge commonly produced by which is the

common / are the usual / attendant on occasional / impermanent / ephemeral //

cohabitation sterility on the part of the female at least so long as the promiscuous

habit of promiscuous intercourse lasts: the evil of overpopulation is thus in so far

excluded at the earliest possible stage.

2. By doubly polygamous marriage all that is gained unless the fourth of the above

remedies be added is the setting correspondent limits to the field of intercourse;

and thus confining the encrease within limits. Moreover to / in / a degree more or

less considerable than those within which it is confined by marriage in the ordinary

mode.