Every woman's book, or, What is love? : containing most important instructions for the prudent regulation of the principle of love and the number of a family / [Richard Carlile].

  • Richard Carlile
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1828
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Credit: Every woman's book, or, What is love? : containing most important instructions for the prudent regulation of the principle of love and the number of a family / [Richard Carlile]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    advocates indiscriminate intercourse, such as exists among* animals, and such as has in some measure existed among* savag-e or uncivi¬ lized races of mankind. Where there is an equal number of males and females, each should be contented with one of the other sex: but upon the principle contained in the following* maxim :— “ You shall have me to yourself ‘just as long as you treat me ivell and can really love me: when that feeling ceases, we had better part and seek new matchesEquality between the sexes is the source of virtue. If there were two women to a man, a plurality of wives would be prudent. If two men to a woman, a plurality of husbands would be as prudent. None unmatched that desire to be matched, is the maxim of morality. Nature has no criterion upon the subject. All the criteria that have existed have been artificial, or legislative, or the consequence of habit and powerful passions. This Essay on Love cannot fail to be highly useful, if rightly studied. That which now passes under the name of love is but too generally a maudlin, sickly sentiment, founded on hypo¬ crisy, and means nothing at bottom but the gra¬ tification of a passion which is felt but not un¬ derstood, and which professes to be every thing but that which it is in reality. The right con-
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