What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.
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In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
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But I think that a little consideration will show you that belief is quite independent of our will, and our common expressions show it.
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The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.
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