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But, girls, even if your mind is set on celibacy, and you feel able to set off by contrasting charms the bliss of matrimony, encourage the friendship of the boys. You need their friendliness just as they need yours. You require their steadiness of purpose, their decision, their frankness, their slower judgment, their more robust endeavor, their courage and hardihood.
She was wakened by a lamp, and her darkness was all inflammable to it. 'Oh! Mr. Barmby, you have done me the honour to speak before; you know my answer, she said. 'You were then subject to an influence. A false, I may say wicked, sentiment upholding celibacy. 'My poor Louise? She never thought of influencing me. She has her views, I mine.
So long as the animal mother was free and competent to care for herself and her young; then it was an advantage to have "the best man win;" that is the best stag or lion; and to have the vanquished die, or live in sulky celibacy, was no disadvantage to any one but himself. Humanity is on a stage above this plan. The best man in the social structure is not always the huskiest.
In his historical novel, Die Letzten ihres Geschlechts, M. Ruediger has graphically described the scenes enacted throughout Germany when Gregory's inhuman order was put into effect. Similar statements regarding priestly celibacy are found in Art. XXVII of the First, and in Art. XXIX of the Second Helvetic Confession of the Reformed.
William allowed the pope's legate to assemble, in his absence, a synod at Winchester, in order to establish the celibacy of the clergy; but the church of England could not yet be carried the whole length expected. Flor. Wigorn. p. 638. Spellm.
If these colleges are, as the above statistics indicate, chiefly devoted to the training of those who do not marry, or if they are to educate for celibacy, this is right. These institutions may perhaps come to be training stations of a new-old type, the agamic or even agenic woman, be she nut, maid old or young nun, school-teacher, or bachelor woman.
The great lawyer Gratian admits that in the earlier period of the Church marriage was allowed to the clergy. The Parisian theologian, Peter Comestor, publicly taught that the enforcement of the vow of celibacy on the clergy was a deliberate snare of the devil.
From a motive either of prudence or religion, she embraced a life of celibacy; and notwithstanding some aspersions on the chastity of Pulcheria, this resolution, which she communicated to her sisters Arcadia and Marina, was celebrated by the Christian world, as the sublime effort of heroic piety.
This apprehension, at first, a little startled her, or at least she imagined it did so, and she said to herself, 'If he should really harbour any inclinations for me of that sort, how unhappy should I be in being obliged to break off my acquaintance with a person so every way agreeable to me; and to continue it, would be to countenance a passion I have determined never to give the least attention to. 'Yet wherefore did I determine? pursued she, with a sigh, 'but because I found the generality of men mere wandering, vague, inconstant creatures; were guided only by fancy; never consulted their judgment, whether the object they pretended to admire, had any real merit or not, and often too treated those worst who had the best claim to their esteem; besides, one seldom finds a man whose person and qualifications are every way suited to one's liking: Natura is certainly such as I should wish a husband to be, if I were inclined to marry again; I have not taken a vow of celibacy, and have nobody to controul my actions': 'then, said she again, 'what foolish imaginations comes into my head; perhaps he has not the least thought of me in the way I am dreaming of; no, no, he has suffered too much by the imprudence of one woman, to put it in the power of another to treat him in the same manner; be trembles at marriage; I have heard him declare it, and I am deviating into a vanity I never before was guilty of.
A vowed celibacy ceased to be a tolerable rule for an aristocracy directly the eugenic idea entered the mind of man, because a celibate aristocracy means the abandonment of the racial future to a proletariat of base unleaderly men. That was plain to Plato. It was plain to Campanelea. It was plain to the Protestant reformers.
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