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Excerpt from Psyche's Task: A Discourse Concerning the Influence of Superstition on the Growth of Institutions
Superstition has been a prop of Marriage by inculcating a deep fear of disregarding the traditionary rules of sexual morality evidence of this fear collected from south-eastern Asia, the Malay Archipelago, Africa, the Hebrews, the Greeks, the Romans, and the Irish: extreme severity with which breaches of the sexual code have been punished in India, Babylon.
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