In thefts and murder, the immediate consequences are injury to some one; in sexual indulgence, the immediate result is agreeable to all concerned.

The evils are traceable only in remote consequences, which intuition can know nothing of.

It is not to be wondered, therefore, that nations, even highly civilized, have differed widely in their marriage institutions; agreeing only in the propriety of adopting and enforcing _some_ regulations.

So essentially has this matter been bound up with the moral code of every society, that a proposed criterion of morality unable to grapple with it, would be discarded as worthless.

Yet there is no intuitive sentiment that can be of any avail in the question of marriage with a deceased wife's sister.
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