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245. All that the state can do, therefore, is to make divorce for adultery easy, and to make marriage as serious a matter as possible

246. (b) Should divorce be allowed except for adultery? Sometimes for lunacy or cruelty, but not for incompatibility, the object of the state being to make marriage a 'consortium omnis vitae'.

P. Rights and virtues.

247. Outline of remaining lectures, on (1) rights connected with the functions of government, (2) social virtues. (The antithesis of 'social' and 'self-regarding' is false)

248. Virtues, being dispositions to exercise rights, are best co-ordinated with rights. Thus to the right of life correspond those virtues which maintain life against nature, force, and animal passion

249. Similarly there are active virtues, corresponding to the negative obligations imposed by property and marriage

250. 'Moral sentiments' should be classified with the virtues, of which they are weaker forms

251. Although for clearness obligations must be treated apart from moral duties, they are really the outer and inner side of one spiritual development, in the joint result of which the idea of perfection is fulfilled.