PHI LOS 0 P H Y . - Classic Works of Apologetics Online

1. The private comfort of individuals, especially
of the female sex. It may be true, that all are not
interested in this reason : nevertheless, it is a reason
to all for abstaining from any conduct which tends
in its general consequence to obstruct marriage ; for
whatever promotes the happiness of the majority is
binding upon the whole.
2 The production of the greatest ntlmber of
heaithy children, their better education~ and th~
makjng of due provision for their sett1em~nt in life.
s. The peace of human society, in cutting off' (l
principle source of contention, by ~signing one 0r
more wome.n to one meln, and pr.otecting l1is excltrsive
right by sanctions of morality and 13 w.
4. The better government of society, by distribut-­
ing the community into separate families, and appointing
over each the authority of a master of a
family, \\ThieI1 lIas mOl'e actual influence tl1an all civil
authority put together.
5. rfhe same end, in the additional se