Note 173 — Chapter XI · HISTORY OF SEPARATION AND DIVORCE UNDER ENGLISH AND ECCLESIASTICAL LAW
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Cf. Esmein, Le mariage en droit canonique, II, 308, 309. Throughout his Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, as elsewhere in his writings, Milton insists that a real marriage implies a full spiritual as well as conjugal companionship, with which the theory of separation without dissolution is inconsistent; and this is the common Puritan view.