Conjugial Love (Chadwick) n. 195

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195. (x) This formation is effected by the wife linking her will with her husband's inner will.

A man has rational and moral wisdom, and a wife links herself with what belongs to his moral wisdom (see 163-165 above). What belongs to rational wisdom makes up the man's intellect, what belongs to moral wisdom his will. It is with what makes up the man's will that a wife links herself. It is the same whether we speak of the wife linking herself or linking her will to her husband's will, because a wife is by birth a creature of the will, and so it is her will which directs her to do what she does. We speak of linking with the husband's inner will, because a man's will is located in his intellect, and the inmost level in a woman is the intellectual part of the man, as stated in the discussion of how woman was formed from man (see 32 above, and many later passages). Men also have an outer will, but this is more often affected by pretence and dissimulation. A wife can observe this will, but does not form a link with it, unless she pretends to do so, or for fun.


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