Owen's Moral Physiology; or, A Brief and Plain Treatise on the Population Question

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Robert Dale Owen. Owen's Moral Physiology; or, A Brief and Plain Treatise on the Population Question

Owen's Moral Physiology; or, A Brief and Plain Treatise on the Population Question

Table of Contents

EDITOR’S PREFACE

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

MORAL PHYSIOLOGY

CHAPTER II. STATEMENT OF THE SUBJECT

CHAPTER III. THE QUESTION EXAMINED IN THE ABSTRACT

CHAPTER IV. THE QUESTION IN ITS CONNEXION WITH POLITICAL ECONOMY

CHAPTER V. THE QUESTION CONSIDERED IN ITS SOCIAL BEARINGS

CHAPTER VI. THE SUBJECT CONSIDERED IN ITS IMMEDIATE CONNEXION WITH PHYSIOLOGY

CHAPTER VII. ADDITIONAL REMARKS

CHAPTER VIII. TO THE MARRIED OF BOTH SEXES IN GENTEEL LIFE

CHAPTER IX. THE PURPOSES AND OBLIGATIONS OF MARRIAGE

CHAPTER X. CONCLUDING REMARKS

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Robert Dale Owen

Published by Good Press, 2021

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CHAPTER X. CONCLUDING REMARKS.

And you, prudes and hypocrites! you who strain at a gnat and swallow a camel; you whom Jesus likened to whited sepulchres, which without indeed are beautiful, but within are full of all uncleanness; you who affect to blush if the ancle is incidentally mentioned in conversation, or displayed in crossing a style, but will read indecencies enough, without scruple, in your closets; you who, at dinner, asked to be helped to the bosom of a duck, lest by mention of the word breast, you call up improper associations; you who have nothing but a head and feet and fingers; you who look demure by daylight, and make appointments only in the dark—you, prudes and hypocrites! I do not address. Even if honest in your prudery, your ideas of right and wrong are too artificial and confused to profit by the present discussion; if dishonest, I desire to have no communication with you.

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