De Conjugio (Chadwick) n. 111

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111. Few people today know what true conjugial love is and what is its origin, because few are in it. Almost all believe that it is inborn and thus emanates from a kind of instinct, as they say; and they believe this the more because a conjugial principle exists among animals, when there is such a difference between conjugial love with human beings and the conjugial principle with beasts, as there is between the state of a human being and that of a brute animal.


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