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Article TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. ← Page 2 of 3 →
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To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Magazine.
naturalized slavery to the people of the South : as they can easily dispense with liberty . But the people of the North have need of liberty , for this best can procure them the means of satisfying all those wants which they have received from nature . The people of the North then are in a forced state , ' if they are not either free or barbarians . Almost all the people of the South are in some meain state of violence if
sure a they are not slaves * . Singular as it may appear , yet it has been contended by able authors , that according to the different climates the religion is in part obliged to vary . A particular class of the Indians , for instance , hate the Mahometans , because they eat cows : the Mahometans detest the Indians , because they eat hogs f . This happens to be an excellent for both
religion , because it suits their climates and constitutions best . It was contrary to the Papian Law for a man of sixty to marry a woman of fifty . As they had given great privileges to married men , the law would not suffer them to enter into useless marriages . For the same reason the Calvisian Senatus Consulium declared the marriage of a woman . above fifty with a man less than sixty to be that of
unequal ; so a woman fifty years of age could not marry without incurring the penalties of these laws . Tiberius added to the rigour of the Papian Law , and prohibited men of sixty from marrying women under fifty ; so that a man of sixty could not marry in any case whatsoever , without incurring the penalty . But Claudius abrogated this Law made under Tiberius £ . All these
regulations were more conformable to the climate of Italy than to that of the North , where a man of sixty years of age has still a considerable degree of strength , and where women of fifty are not always past child-bearing . If an old couple have a mind to end their days happily together , though the marriage is a mere ceremony , God forbid I should attempt to prevent it . —Let them enjoy themselves and forget old age ; for we were never created to live miserable .
_ But where a man gives up bis existence , if I may use the expression , for the sake of marrying a rich old widow , 1 think such an one is beneath the character of an Englishman . —He must either give up all the happiness this world can afford to make her happy , or have the ingratitude § to treat her like a brute , and thereby cause her to end her old days in misery , in a reflection on past improprieties , a sincere repentance without a remed y , and all that anguish and misery a woman who has any feelings ( there being none of either sex but feel for themselves ) must feel on such an occasion , and whose only hopes rest in a future state j | .
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To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Magazine.
naturalized slavery to the people of the South : as they can easily dispense with liberty . But the people of the North have need of liberty , for this best can procure them the means of satisfying all those wants which they have received from nature . The people of the North then are in a forced state , ' if they are not either free or barbarians . Almost all the people of the South are in some meain state of violence if
sure a they are not slaves * . Singular as it may appear , yet it has been contended by able authors , that according to the different climates the religion is in part obliged to vary . A particular class of the Indians , for instance , hate the Mahometans , because they eat cows : the Mahometans detest the Indians , because they eat hogs f . This happens to be an excellent for both
religion , because it suits their climates and constitutions best . It was contrary to the Papian Law for a man of sixty to marry a woman of fifty . As they had given great privileges to married men , the law would not suffer them to enter into useless marriages . For the same reason the Calvisian Senatus Consulium declared the marriage of a woman . above fifty with a man less than sixty to be that of
unequal ; so a woman fifty years of age could not marry without incurring the penalties of these laws . Tiberius added to the rigour of the Papian Law , and prohibited men of sixty from marrying women under fifty ; so that a man of sixty could not marry in any case whatsoever , without incurring the penalty . But Claudius abrogated this Law made under Tiberius £ . All these
regulations were more conformable to the climate of Italy than to that of the North , where a man of sixty years of age has still a considerable degree of strength , and where women of fifty are not always past child-bearing . If an old couple have a mind to end their days happily together , though the marriage is a mere ceremony , God forbid I should attempt to prevent it . —Let them enjoy themselves and forget old age ; for we were never created to live miserable .
_ But where a man gives up bis existence , if I may use the expression , for the sake of marrying a rich old widow , 1 think such an one is beneath the character of an Englishman . —He must either give up all the happiness this world can afford to make her happy , or have the ingratitude § to treat her like a brute , and thereby cause her to end her old days in misery , in a reflection on past improprieties , a sincere repentance without a remed y , and all that anguish and misery a woman who has any feelings ( there being none of either sex but feel for themselves ) must feel on such an occasion , and whose only hopes rest in a future state j | .