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give each of the conjugal partners, and marriage
itself, demerits for repeated inattentiveness? It is taxing enough to
express a single idea in one's life, but to think something so
complicated as marriage and, consequently, bring it under one head, to
think something so complicated and yet to do justice to each and every
element in it, and have everything present at the same time - verily, he
is a great man who can accomplish all this! And still every Benedict
accomplished it - so he does, no doubt, for does he not say that he does
it unconsciously? But if this is to be done unconsciously it must be
through some higher form of unconsciousness permeating all one's
reflective powers. But not a word is said about this! And to ask any
married man about it means just wasting one's time.



He who has once committed a piece of folly will constantly be pursued by
its consequences. In the case of marriage the folly consists in one's
having gotten into a mess, and the punishment, in recognizing, when it
is too late, what one has done. So you will find that the married man
now becomes chesty, with a bit of pathos, thinking he has done something
remarkable in having entered wedlock; now puts his tail between his legs
in dejection, then again, praises marriage in sheer self-defense. But as
to a thought unit which might serve to hold together the scattered
members of the most heterogeneous conceptions of life contained in
marriage - for that we shall wait in vain.



Therefore, to be a mere Benedict is humbug, and to be a