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Aids to Reflection

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Marriage Service

Marriage, simply as marriage, is not the means “for the procreation of children,” but for the humanization of the offspring procreated. Therefore, in the Declaration at the beginning, after the words, “procreation of children,” I would insert, “and as the means of securing to the children procreated enduring care, and that they may be”, &c.

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