This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867. Excerpt: ... CCCLXXXIII. K"lWraiATRIMONY is said to be of the law of nature, or natural. 1. By reason of its principal final cause, which is offspring. For nature intends not only the generation of offspring, but their upbringing and arrival at man's estate; as the Philosopher says, we have three things from our parents, viz., being, nurture, and discipline. Now a son cannot be educated and instructed by his parents, unless it be determined and certain that he has parents, which it would not be unless there were a certain determinate obligation of a man to a woman--which makes matrimony. 2. By reason of its secondary end, which is the mutual accommodation of the spouses to each other in matters domestic. For as natural reason dictates that men should live together, whence man is said to be naturally political; and seeing that certain necessary works pertain rather to the man, and certain others to the woman, nature prompts an association of a man with a woman, wherein consists Matrimony. Matrimony is then a necessary consequence of man's being naturally political, gregal, and conjugal. CCCLXXXIV. Procreation of offspring is common to all animals; but the offspring of some animals can as soon as born get their own living: in this case, there is no determination of the male to the female. The same holds good when sustentation is required on the part of the mother only. The offspring of others requires the sustentation of both parents, but for a short time, and here there is found a determination of the male to the female for that time, as in the case of certain birds. But human offspring requires parental care for a long time, and so between man and woman there is the greatest determination. CCCLXXXV. Cicero indeed says that in the beginning men were savages, having no ...
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