Woman physiologically considered as to mind, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity and divorce / By Alexander Walker.

  • Walker, Alexander, 1779-1852.
Date:
1839
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Credit: Woman physiologically considered as to mind, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity and divorce / By Alexander Walker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    life, may thereby form the remaining cause of injury to the domestic affections ; 46, The pointing out that the aristocracy of love in England, and its general aristocracy. have the same origin, in expensive laws; 47. The exposition of the fact that human nature, in its tendency to sexual infidelity, is much the same in modern Russia, Poland, England, Germany, Prussia, Austria, France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, as in ancient Sparta and Athens ;— always excepting that nations with greatly de- veloped vital systems are most loving and prolific ; and, where subject to indissoluble marriage, most guilty of sexual infidelity, though among them that is always concealed ; | 48. The showing that one great means of aris- tocratic despotism in general, and of that which regards divorce in particular, is the careful dis- tinction of the rich from the poor by means of barbarous and insolent laws, and the placing jus- tice, by its cost, quite out of the reach of the latter. 49. The more complete exposition of the in- justice of polygamy ; 50. The showing that the great cause of con- cubinage and courtezanism is indissoluble mar- riage ; 51. The proving that parents bequeath their errors to their children, and that consequently