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But what the unchaste principle is, and what the non-chaste, and with what persons each of them prevails, shall be illustrated in the following order: I. The chaste principle and the non-chaste are predicated only of marriages and of such things as relate to marriages. II. The chaste principle is predicated only of monogamical marriages, or of the marriage of one man with one wife.
This union of souls can only take place in monogamical marriages, or those of one man with one wife, but not in polygamical marriages, or those of one man with several wives; because in the latter case the love is divided, in the former it is united.
The business on which we are come is, to be instructed concerning your marriages, whether they are monogamical or polygamical." and they said, "What are polygamical marriages? Are not they adulterous?"
And as the church is from the Lord, conjugial love is also from him, n. 131. The chaste principle and the non-chaste are predicated only of marriages and of such things as relate to marriages, n. 139, 140. The chaste principle is predicated only of monogamical marriages, or of the marriage of one man with one wife, n. 141. The Christian conjugial principle alone is chaste, n. 142.
If you wish for a proof of this, ask, if you please, the men you meet, what their sentiments are respecting monogamical and polygamical unions; and you will seldom meet one who will not reply in favor of the polygamical; and this also is a love of the sex: but ask the women their sentiments on the subject, and almost all, except the vilest of the sex, will reject polygamical unions; from which consideration it follows, that with the women there prevails a love of one of the sex, thus conjugial love.
MODESTY is one of those virtues which have respect to life, and enter into it, 164. MONASTERIES. What becomes in the other life of those who have been shut up in monasteries, 54, 155. Virgins devoted to the monastic life, 513. MONOGAMISTS. All in heaven live married to one wife, 77. MONOGAMICAL marriages, 70, 77, 141.
That it exists only with a very few in the Christian world, where there are monogamical marriages, but that still it is capable of existing there, has also been confirmed above. That with polygamists conjugial love is natural, may be seen in the chapter on Polygamy, n. 345, 347; in like manner jealousy is natural in the same case, because this follows love.
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