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1 ADULTERY — Of Wife why disgraceful to the. Husband

It is a common affectation among popular Moralists
to treat it as an explicable problem,
why it is that the infidelity of the Wife should
reflects is apt to reflect <add>when detected</add> commonly a degree of disgrace
upon the injured Husband when the Gallant, at least in certain countries & in a certain rank, even rears his head the higher.: as if the custom propensity to regard
the matter in that light were a mere
caprice, which bore no analogy to the general
tenor of human sentiments, nor had any connection
with the general principles of Human
Nature was inexplicable upon the General Theory of Human nature — It is however easily enough accounted
for by one who chu wishes chuses to survey a
subject impartially on both sides, without
permitting himself that license which is assumed
by many of the herd of reasoners shutting their wha eyes against
what may be alledged in favor of what is or
passes for illaudable, & of combating vice
as it were with poisoned weapons.

these are they who consider every vice vicious habit of <add>or of action</add> in its

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2 turn as somewhat strange, & inconceivable & unnatural,
& from by the similitude which in their
imagination a cause carries to a reason, should
led to the studying to represent it as without
a cause, they prevent shut out that light which
the discovery <add>true knowledge of it's cause</add> would be cast upon the subject, by the discovery & intercept
of its cause the method <add>means, which that knowledge would afford</add>
of combating it with advantage. — a conduct
this, which resembles that of those the vulgar, who
when a brood of noxious insects visits the earth
th instead of applying themselves to the investigation
of its nature and it's origination in order to devise that methods may
be discover'd for destroying it, join sit still together in
regarding it as an inexplicable miraculous & inevitable
instrument of vengeance in the hand of Heaven instead of setting themselves down calmly to the studying of it's history & it's properties.

The circumstances which may lead a woman
into this guilt are seem reducible to these following
either on her part a roving & libidinous complexion



Identifier: | JB/073/086/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 73.

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073

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law in general

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086

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adultery - of wife why disgraceful to the husband

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001

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1

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recto

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jeremy bentham

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