“If society will adopt the rule of nature, and justify no marriage without a supreme affection, the evils of marriage without love will be sufficiently cured. Those who marry without the consent of Nature may securely expect trouble.” IfsMayEvilTroubleAffectionSupremeJustifyConsentWithout Love Book:Marriage: With Preludes on Current Events Source: Marriage: With Preludes on Current Events
“What is the average type of a counterfeit church? A hammock, attached on one side to the cross, and, on the other, held and swung to and fro by the forefinger of Mammon; its freight of nominal Christians elegantly moaning meanwhile over the evils of the times, and not at ease unless fanned by eloquence and music, and sprinkled by social adulations into perfumed, unheroic slumber.” ChristianEvilSocialSidesChurchTypeCrossesAverageEaseEloquenceSlumberCounterfeitMoaningAdulationHammocks Book:Scepticism and Rationalism: Elective Affinities and Hereditary Descent Source: Scepticism and Rationalism: Elective Affinities and Hereditary Descent