The Masterpiece - On marriage...
_ On marriage and at what age young men and virgins are capable of it: and why so much desire it. Also, how long men and women are capable of it.
There are very few, except some professional debauchees, who will not readily agree that "Marriage is honourable to all," being ordained by Heaven in Paradise； and without which no man or woman can be in a capacity, honestly, to yield obedience to the first law of the creation, "Increase and Multiply." And since it is natural in young people to desire the embraces, proper to the marriage bed, it behoves parents to look after their children, and when they find them inclinable to marriage, not violently to restrain their inclinations (which, instead of allaying them, makes them but the more impetuous) but rather provide such suitable matches for them, as may make their lives comfortable； lest the crossing of those inclinations should precipitate them to commit those follies that may bring an in

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