Conjugial Love (Rogers) n. 190

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190. (5) The states of life in men and women before marriage and their states of life after marriage are different. Before marriage each sex goes through two states, one state preceding the inclination towards marriage, the other following it. Changes in these two states and the resulting transformations of their minds develop in a progressive sequence according to continual growths in these states. We do not have the space, however, to describe these changes here, for they are various and diverse in the people who undergo them. Essentially, inclinations towards marriage prior to marriage are only something that can be imagined in the mind, which then become more and more something that can be felt in the body. On the other hand, the states these inclinations lead to after marriage are states of union and also of procreation. Clearly, these latter states differ from the former ones as realizations do from intentions.


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