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Offences against Condition — Adultery Ins.

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Adultery — more excusable in the Husband There are many men to whom a connection of the
amorous kind, unless the propensity can be kept down
by violent increase is an of physical necessity:
their health suffers if they be debarred from
it. There are some women in whom the prosodical
indisposition which renders it disagreeable to them
to admit the embraces of a man continues for a
week together in every four. Any woman tog a month more or less in a year
and parturition every woman is liable of
course to be put under that incapacity by pregnancy
& parturition. Any woman is liable to be under subjected to
that incapacity for an indefinite time by illness.
A man has more frequent occasion than a woman to take long journies
Who shall say, that when the an infidelity
happens on the part of the man, one or
other of these circumstances may not have been
the occasion?

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Adultery in what case harmless If adultery were never committed but when
the husband was indifferent, there would be no harm
in it: but whether he be so or not is not known the fact of
were where he is indifferent, the fact of the adultery
is known when the fact of his indifference is not
known. Now the more adultery is known to
the the horror of it is diminished, & the
more excuses people find for committing it: so
that an instance of no mischief is done
by it contributes to produce instances in which
it is mischievous. It would be necessary therefore
that Adultery should be forbidden if it were
to oblige people to make keep it secret.

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Identifier: | JB/071/093/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-9, 15-20, 10-14
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	093	Info in main headings field	offences against condition - adultery
Image	003	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23496
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