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 […?]