Marriage Index 1 (Whitehead) n. 110

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110. USE. (Usus.)

The most excellent use is from conjugial love (128-130 [CL 68, 143, 183, 305]).

Various uses (128 [CL 18]).

Conjugial love in its first origin is the love of the propagation of good and truth (502).

Man's soul is in a state of perpetual fructification (498-501 [CL 220]).

Man is a form of love, of wisdom, and of use (683-690 [CL 16, 183, 361]).

Man is a single series of all the uses in the universe (691-693).

These uses cohere in man in most perfect order (694).

The uses of love and wisdom are given in substances, and thus in forms (695-697 [CL 66, 361]).

There is nothing which is not a form of use (697 [CL 183]).

Love forms wisdom, and through wisdom it forms use; thus every form is essentially a form of love (700-708).

A conversation concerning love, wisdom and use (Memorabilia 763 [CL 183]).

Uses and their affections distinguish men from one another (773-779 [CL 18]).

A cause of coldness between consorts is, that there is no determination of the mind to any study or business; whence comes either stupidity or wandering desire (951-957 [CL 249]).


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