Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children.
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
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One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.
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Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away.
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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
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The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
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Of children as of procreation - the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.
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