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as things go, on the subject of the marriage institution. Constantly accused of endorsing
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Free Love doctrines, he as constantly repudiated the charge. In 1881 we find him indignantly protesting that not only bad men, but men of whose honesty in other things he was sure,
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[103] The
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Free Love charge was commonly founded on his alleged acceptance of the whole doctrine of the work entitled
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The Elements of Social Science. No such acceptance ever occurred. He was the last man to vilify a benevolent and temperate writer for doctrines with which he could not agree; but in the reprint of his pamphlet on
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Jesus, Shelley, and Malthus, [104] he explicitly wrote of the author in question:
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His work well deserves careful study; there are in it many matters of physiology on which I am incompetent to express an opinion, and some points of ethics from which I expressly and strongly dissent. Not only did he thus reject the
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doctrine of sexual freedom: he never committed himself to any such proposition as that of Mill, that the institution of the family needs