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  1. Preface
  2. I. The Matriarchate
  3. II. Celibacy
  4. III. Canon Law
  5. IV. Marquette
  6. V. Witchcraft
  7. VI. Wives
  8. VII. Polygamy
  9. VIII. Woman And Work
  10. IX. The Church Of To-Day
  11. X. Past, Present, Future

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It was a favorite doctrine of the Christian fathers that concupiscence or the sensual passion was the original sin of human nature. Lecky.--Hist. European Morals.

The tendency of the church towards the enforcement of celibacy was early seen. At the four Synods which assembled to establish the true faith in respect to the Holy nature of Christ’s Humanity, the first one at Nice, 318, the second at Constantinople with forty bishops present; the third at Ephesus with two hundred bishops present; the fourth at Chaledonia with many bishops together, they forever forbade all marriage to the minister at the altar. Monumenta Ecclesiastica. To no minister at the altar is it allowed to marry, but it is forbidden to every one. Ibid.

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