Conjugial Love (Rogers) n. 471

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471. (8) Weighty reasons for taking a mistress in such a circumstance are real and unreal. In addition to just reasons, which are just grounds for separation and so become just grounds for taking a mistress, there are also weighty reasons, which depend on the judgment and justice in the husband; and this being the case, therefore these, too, must be mentioned. However, because the judgments of justice can be perverted, and the perverted judgments turned by rationalizations into semblances of justice, therefore we distinguish these reasons into real weighty reasons and ones that are not real and describe them separately.


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