You must try to imagine a country in which the place of the highest virtue is occupied, so to speak, by the devotion of sex to sex.

The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

The first duty of the wife may be, indeed, must be, to her child, when she has one; but otherwise her husband is her divinity and king.

In that country it would be thought unnatural or strange to have one's parents living in the same house with wife or husband.

You know all this.