ABSTRACT
I never gave credit to that axiom of sickly sensibility, that is a sacrilege, in him who has been engaged in one cordial and happy union, ever to turn his thought to another. Much more reasonable than this is the Indian doctrine, that the survivor ought to leap into the flames, and perish upon the funeral pyre of the deceased .… I should hold that in many cases he who entered into a second marriage, by that action yielded a pure and honourable homage to the manes of the first.
