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’.