Remember, as Jimmy Carter reminded us, that the Good Book says that you have commited adultery if you look upon another man's wife with lust in your heart.
jks
--- Chris Brooke <chris.brooke at magdalen.oxford.ac.uk>
wrote:
> On 7/10/03 10:03 pm, "andie nachgeborenen"
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Mill, btw, also Lived In Sin, and adulterously
> > too, with his girlfriend Harriet Taylor...
>
> My impression was that Mill scholars agree with
> Mill's opinion in the
> Autobiography that the pair were not adulterous, and
> that they only continue
> to disagree over whether they _ever_ had sex, even
> after marriage. (There
> are various theories in the literature as to why
> this might have been the
> case, with varying degrees of plausibility).
>
> Which is not to say that they didn't generate
> scandal.
>
> One interesting recent reflection on their
> relationship is here:
>
http://www.sas.ac.uk/ies/Conferences/Hilda%20Hume%20Text.htm
>
> Chris
>
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