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Now, by virtue of the indigenous constitution, the governors of the Catholic annex all designated beforehand by their suitable and indelible character, all tonsured, robed in black, celibates and speaking Latin form two orders, unequal in dignity and in number; one inferior, comprising myriads of cures and vicars, and the other superior, comprising some dozens of prelates.
Nevertheless, after a very profound discussion, in which I settled upon the sum for the celibates, and she for her sex, it was agreed that, one thing with another, since the two lovers belong to the social sphere which this work concerns, they ought to spend between them, in the matter referred to, one hundred and fifty francs more than in time of peace.
Such truly is what the priests of Rome teach, though nearly for a thousand years after Christ came Christian ministers, whom they acknowledged as belonging to their communion, were allowed to marry like other men; and certainly those who did so were less corrupt than the celibates who, having no family ties, became the servile tools of Rome's tyranny."
"Can men keep their health and strength as celibates till such time as they have the means to marry?" is the question we have, then, to face. Is the standard of the moral law possible to men who have to maintain a high level of physical efficiency in the sharp competition of modern life? Primarily, the answer to this question must come from the acknowledged heads of the medical profession.
Celibacy does not appeal strongly to men. A man is quite willing to live alone if it is not compulsory, but celibates cannot stand restraint; the bachelor is bound to have his own way until he is married. Tell a man he may not marry, and he will; that he must marry, and he won't. The sect which tries to get along with either too little or too much marriage is bound to peter out.
They therefore keep quiet; they watch, and wait, with incredible vigilance, for the moment when bride and groom begin to weary of the seventh heaven. The tact with which celibates discover the moment when the breeze begins to rise in a new home can only be compared to the indifference of those husbands for whom the Red-moon rises.
I tell you he will never marry." "You may know more about him than I do," his sister placidly answered, "but I have seen him looking at Honora for the last five years, and working for her, and thinking about her. His look changed recently. Perhaps you know why. There's something in the air. I can feel it. You can't. None of you celibates can.
And then her friends will marry; you will have four women to watch instead of one, four characters to divine, and you will be at the mercy of four husbands and a dozen celibates, of whose life, principles and habits you are quite ignorant, at a time when our meditations have revealed to you certain coming of a day when you will have your hands full with the people whom you married with your wife.
"Yes; and as I am a moral man I insist upon marriage." "Does that mean that I am immoral," retorted Roland, "or that I cause any scandal with my mistresses?" "Augustus," answered Bonaparte, "created laws against celibates, depriving them of their rights as Roman citizens." "Augustus " "Well?" "I'll wait until you are Augustus; as yet, you are only Caesar."
Love, denied at the front door, flies in by the cellar window. Angel or bat, it is always with us. Our only choice is between its guises. Mary looked at the army of women celibates in offices and in stores and in their apartments and in their boarding houses, women celibates five and ten and fifteen and twenty years into the period when nature has by irrepealable edict ordained love.
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