{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But they who approve of marriage say, Nature has adapted us for\r\nmarriage, as is evident from the structure of our bodies, which are\r\nmale and female. And they constantly proclaim that command, “Increase\r\nand replenish.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_254\" id=\"FNanchor_254\">[254]</a> And though this is the case, yet it seems to them\r\nshameful that man, created by God, should be more licentious than\r\nthe irrational creatures, which do not mix with many licentiously,\r\nbut with one of the same species, such as pigeons and ringdoves, and\r\ncreatures like them. Furthermore, they say, “The childless man fails\r\nin the perfection which is according to nature, not having substituted\r\nhis proper successor in his place. For he is perfect that has produced\r\nfrom himself his like, or rather, when he sees that he has produced\r\nthe same; that is, when that which is begotten attains to the same\r\nnature with him who begat.” Therefore we must by all means marry, both\r\nfor our country’s sake, for the succession of children, and as far as\r\nwe are concerned, the perfection of the world; since<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_80\">[80]</span> the poets also\r\npity a marriage half-perfect and childless, but pronounce the fruitful\r\none happy. But it is the diseases of the body that principally show\r\nmarriage to be necessary. For a wife’s care and the assiduity of\r\nher constancy appear to exceed the endurance of all other relations\r\nand friends, as much as to excel them in sympathy; and most of all,\r\nshe takes kindly to patient watching. And in truth, according to\r\nScripture, she is a needful help.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_255\" id=\"FNanchor_255\">[255]</a> The comic poet then, Menander,\r\nwhile running down marriage, and yet alleging on the other side its\r\nadvantages, replies to one who had said:</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER XXIII. ON MARRIAGE."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_254","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-125"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"75fd245b779c4dd9a44e88bce349a400a3f9b74c8d649472992aab17a2e1f806","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GEN","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. i. 28","verse":28,"verse_end":28}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_254","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Existing 1869 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_254","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_254\" id=\"Footnote_254\">[254]</a> Gen. i. 28.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_254","text_sha256":"f81d13f5703cf1089faf42f244f5804fa3cc83273bc0f61d7d87f283adcee57d","verified":false,"work_id":null}