Our feelings are arrayed on both sides; and there is no prompting of nature to arbitrate between the opposing impulses.

If the advance of civilization has tended to liberty, it has been owing partly to greater enlightenment, and partly to the successful struggles of dissent in the war with established opinion.
The questions relating to marriage are wholly undecideable by intuition.

The natural impulses are for unlimited co-habitation.

The degree of restraint to be put upon this tendency is not indicated by any sentiment that can be discovered in the mind.

The case is very peculiar.