Marriage and Family

Marriage is presented as a solemn contract aimed at the propagation of mankind and the joint happiness of the couple, with duties of fidelity, mutual assistance, and parental care for children, all grounded in truth and natural law.

The chapter defines marriage as a covenant for propagation and mutual happiness, and outlines duties of spouses and parents.

Marriage and Family is one of the patterns The Religion of Nature Delineated by William Wollaston returns to. The chapter notes above are from this edition’s companions — open those chapters to see how the book stages the idea rather than treating the theme as a slogan.