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MR. WHITE. 1303
man, but not under any circumstances is a corresponding indulgence
granted to women."
This permission is given to men, and not to women, because men
and women in respect to the love of the sex are differently con
stituted. We read in "Conjugial Love," no. 296, "With men is the
love of the sex in general, but with women the love of one of the
sex. In order to be confirmed on this subject inquire of the men
you meet what are their sentiments respecting monogamical and
polygamical marriages ; and you will seldom meet with one who will
not reply in favour of polygamical marriages; this also is a love of
the sex ; but ask the women what their sentiments are respecting
such marriages, and almost all, except common women of the street,
will reject polygamical marriages; from which it follows, that with
the women there prevails the love of one of the sex, and thus con
jugial love."
Man by nature is in the love of the sex in general, and by
marriage is raised out of this general love of the sex into the love
of one of the sex. In this limited love of the sex he is kept by
the wife whom he marries; and this love is imparted to him by his
wife, because she by nature is in the love of one of the sex, and
thus in conjugial love. If a state of internal and external separation
ensues between the husband and his wife, he is separated thereby
from her conjugial love, and thus from the love of one of the sex,
and hence he comes again into the general love of the sex, in which
he was before marriage. If he, therefore, under such circumstances
should attach himself to another woman, a concubine, he would not
thereby be introduced into a lower, baser love; but he would simply
be, as to his love of the sex, in the state in which he was before
marriage.
Concubinage is an extra-conjugial connection entered into on the
basis of the love of the sex in general, into which he comes again,
when he is separated from the conjugial love of his wife.
The reason, however, why it is not allowed to woman, under
similar circumstances, to attach herself to another man, before the
legal ties with her first husband are broken off by divorce, is because
in the case of the wife, just as in the case of the husband, this
would be an extra-conjugial relation formed on the basis of the love
of the sex; for as long as the marriage-compact is not annulled, all
sexual relations are formed on the basis of the love of the sex, and
not on that of conjugial love, which is genuine marriage love. If a
man, for a just cause, enters into such a relation, he is not intro
duced thereby into a lower, baser love, but woman is; for out of
conjugial love into which she is born, and which is a spiritual love,
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