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Indirect Legislation
Satisfying
may be made for life or for any shorter time term:
why not for bed as well as board? Why lay impose
restraints restrictions upon the operations by which the species
is continued more than upon those by which the
individual is preserved? There are Children — but suppose
there to be none ?
In this particular
The force of the ascetic priciple
has connected
with the idea of
virtue with that
of restraint, with
looking for the :
that the idea of vice, with
the ideas of liberty
ease & comfort
In it is said to be the custom for strangers
to take temporary wives, engaging for a term certain:
and they have seldom it is said any
occasion to complain of infidelity.
The Code Frederician code found this kind
of marriage established which however it but thought
fit to disallow it . [As it scarcely seems not unwisely: This one should have made no real
difference for when a man and his wife might is may are at
liberty to part at any time, what can they wish would they have
for more.] Indeed Comparatively speaking There could be little occasion need of contracts
for fixt terms when contracts for life wh were
dissoluble at pleasure.
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