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Between Husband and Wife there is thought to be Friendship by a

law of nature: man being by nature disposed to pair, more than to

associate in Communities: in proportion as the family is prior in

order of time and more absolutely necessary than the Community.

And procreation is more common to him with other animals; all the

other animals have Communion thus far, but human creatures

cohabit not merely for the sake of procreation but also with a

view to life in general::[8] because in this connection the works

are immediately divided, and some belong to the man, others to

the woman: thus they help one the other, putting what is peculiar

to each into the common stock.