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The Platform for an Election

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2024

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Editorial
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Blackfriars , Volume 26 , Issue 304 , July 1945 , pp. 241 - 246
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Copyright © 1945 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 Faber and Faber; 129. 6d.

2 One doubtful strain is played vigorously in this essay: the author accepts wholeheartedly the theory of marriage popularised by Doms and others in which the secondary ends become primary. and he even writes: ‘ Although the essential meaning of marriage is the mutual union of husband’ and wife, the procreative end is by no means to be belittled ‘ (p. 51). It is surely hardly opportune to insist on a change of emphasis, which may easily be made an excuse for sterility, just when the sterility of marriage ‘ for love ‘ is proving so disastrous. The Holy See has in fact recently condemned Doms’s theory. ‘