Chapter 144 Chapter Forty-eight

How did Gao Kangda point out that it is not legal for children to marry before they have informed their parents and obtained their consent Pagoda came to the hall of the palace and met the kind-hearted Gao Kangda coming out of the parliament.Grande Guay briefly related the events to his father, and set forth their plans, and begged his consent to allow them to carry them out.The benevolent Gao Kangda was holding two packages of resolutions and pending proposals in his hands. At this time, he handed the things to his old messenger Ulrich Jalai, and pulled the Pagoda Guer aside, his face With a very happy look on his face, he said:

"Dear child, I praise God to bless you with good intentions, and I am happy for you to complete this journey. However, I hope you can also think about marriage. I think you have also reached the age for marriage. Banu Day Trying to break through the difficulties that hinder him, you should also talk about yourself." "Most merciful father," replied Paiguguet, "I have not thought of that. I obey your old man's will, and obey your orders. I pray to God, that I would rather see me die before you at once, I don’t want to see me marrying against your wishes while I’m alive. I don’t care about any laws, orthodox ones, foreign teachers, or foreign ones. I’ve never heard that children can be free without the consent of their parents and relatives. , promised and instructed, and went to get married. All legislators have not allowed children to have this freedom, which has always been decided by the parents."

Gao Kangda said: "Dear child, I believe your words. Praising God only makes you realize the correct and commendable knowledge. Except for bright and upright learning, nothing enters the realm of your mind from the window of your senses. When I was young, there was a country on the Continent where the priests and the 'earth rats' were as much about marriage as the priests of Philipia Cuberi (like capons, not like rooster in high spirits) and detested them, and they issued some laws about marriage to those who married. I don't know what I should hate more, but these terrible priests - they do not stay honest in their own mysterious within the walls of a temple, to interfere in matters that have nothing to do with their status—or is it the stupid superstition of those who marry, who admit and profess to obey such vicious and cruel laws, which they cannot see (in fact, more than How the law of marriage, the morning star is still bright, is only good for the mystical ones, and not at all for the married; this is already sufficient reason to think that the law of marriage is unfair and deceitful.

"Tit for tat, they could very well have laid down some laws for the observance of the Mass for these priests, since they pay the tithes, and spend the money they earn by their own labor and the sweat of their hands. Take it out to feed the priests. This is not vicious and severe compared with the laws (in my opinion) that the priests made them. For (as you say) there is no law in the world that allows children not to tell their parents. , Get married without their approval and consent. According to the law I just said, there are no gangsters, scoundrels, scoundrels, murderers, scumbags, ugly monsters, lepers, robbers, thieves, and local hooligans. Choose a woman. Let her family be noble, beautiful, rich, and virtuous, or she can be taken away from her father's house and mother's arms④, regardless of her family's opposition or not, as long as the gangster and the mysterious priest cooperate well and let him One day you can get a share of the pie.

"Could the Goths, Scythians, and Masakitas of old have done meaner and more brutal things in opposing cities long besieged, painstakingly sieged, and conquered by force? My unfortunate father. Refers to the monks who hide in the monastery. ② The priests of Kuberi are all eunuchs. ③ refers to priests. ④ At that time, the French canon law stipulated that as long as there is a priest to testify, the wedding can be held.Parental consent or not, knowledge or not, cannot be grounds for preventing marriage.Erasmus, Luther, and Calvin were all unanimous in their disapproval. Mothers who see a stranger, an unknown, a strong man, a bad man, a filthy, stinking, zombie-like rascal, put the son of a neighbor or the offspring of an old friend who they hope to marry in due time to the same upbringing and education as their own child In order to achieve a century-old marriage, carry on the family line, inherit the traditions of the ancestors, inherit the family business, wealth, inheritance, own beautiful, beautiful, and pampered daughters, snatch and pull away from their own homes, think about it. What kind of picture is this for them? image?

"Don't think that the Romans and their allies could be more saddened by the news of the death of Germanicus Drusus than this. "Don't think that the Lacedaemonians suffered more than seeing Helen of Greece snatched from their country by that whore of Troy. "Don't think that parental grief and mourning are less than Cyrus seeing her daughter Proserpina kidnapped, Isis losing Osiris, Venus seeing Adonis die, Hercules Seeing the disappearance of Sylas ⑥, Hicuba saw the pain when Polyxena ⑦ was taken away. "However, these people, after all, are too afraid of gods, ghosts and demons. They dare not resist, because there are 'earth mice' who forcefully match them. In the family that lost their dear daughter, the father can only curse the unlucky day of marriage, The mother regretted how the unfortunate, tragic child had not been miscarried in the first place.

They should have spent their old age in joy and happiness, but now they can only end their lives in tears. "Others were so stupefied that they became lunatics, full of remorse, unable to bear this kind of insult, and would rather commit suicide by diving and hang themselves. "There are also those who are bold enough to follow the example of Jacob's son who avenged his sister Dinah's defilement. ① They found the villain and his partner, the "earth mouse", and found that the villains were plotting to provoke their daughter; they immediately Frightened and stunned priests and 'ground rats' by the heroic act of manually chopping up and slaying villains and throwing their carcasses into the wild to feed wolves and crows

They protested vigorously, repeatedly asking and urging non-religious assistants, that is to say, the judiciary, to quickly set an example for such incidents. "But neither the axioms of nature nor the rights of men nor the laws of nations have any stipulation, clause, example, or right to punish such things. It is unreasonable and unnatural. For the world It is natural and reasonable for a virtuous life to hear of a daughter's humiliation, disgrace, and disgrace than to hear of her death. Therefore, anyone who sees a strongman doing something unfairly, intentionally If he harms his daughter indiscriminately, he can do it rationally, but naturally he should kill him immediately, and the law cannot interfere. So when he meets a bad person, he lures his daughter and abducts her to leave the family because of the instigation of the "earth mouse". She herself agrees that the bad guys and the 'ground rats' can and should be killed and thrown to the wild beasts, for they are not worthy of the benevolent great mother we call the grave - the land - the last sweetness and longing hug.

"Dearest child, when I die, take care that no such laws are allowed in our country; as long as I have breath and life, God bless, I will certainly do so. As for your marriage, since you trust me, I promise you. I will keep an eye out. You are ready to travel with the Panurges. Take Ibisdemon, Brother John, and others of your choice. You can move as you like. See you in the story. Chapters 72 and 82 of Tacitus' Chronicle, Book II. ② See the forty-sixth line of the third volume of Homer. ③ Pluton once went to hell to snatch Cyrus' daughter Proserpina.See Ovid, chapter five, lines 509 onwards.

④ Isis: Egyptian goddess, wife of Osiris.For the story here, see lines 356 and 356 of the fourteenth volume of Plutarch's "Isis and Osiris". ⑤ For the story, see the seventy-seventh line of the tenth chapter of Ovid. ⑥ Sylas: The partner of Hercules in mythology, who was taken away by the water demon. ⑦ Polyxena: The daughter of Haicuba, who was killed in the Battle of Troy.See the thirty-ninth line of Euripides' "Hi Cuba". ① For the story, see Chapter 34 of the Old Testament Genesis. use my money.Everything you do, I agree with.Go to the Thalassa shipyard and pick up a boat, mobilize sailors, boatmen, and interpreters as you please, and when the wind is favorable, you can sail under the blessing of God the Savior of the World.

"After you leave, I will plan everything, find a marriage for you, and prepare to hold an unprecedentedly grand wedding banquet when you get married." ① "Thalassa" means "sea" according to the Greek θαλασσα, and it may also be the Talar of St. Malo.