Conjugial Love (Acton) n. 159

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159. III. THAT THE WIFE'S WILL CONJOINS ITSELF WITH THE MAN'S UNDERSTANDING, AND HENCE THE MAN'S UNDERSTANDING WITH THE WIFE'S WILL. The reason is, because the male is born to become understanding and the female to become a will loving the understanding of the male; from which it follows, that conjugial conjunction is a conjunction of the wife's will with the man's understanding, and reciprocally, of the man's understanding with the wife's will. Any one can see that there is the closest conjunction of the understanding and the will, and also that it is such that the one faculty can enter into the other and can be delighted by reason of the conjunction and in it.


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