Proofread and pages added by Jonathan Perry, March 2001. The more married men you have, the less crime there will be.
Marriage makes man wiser and more virtuous.
The father of a family, near to committing a crime, is often stopped by his wife whose blood, less feverish than his, makes her gentler, more compassionate, more fearful of theft and murder, more timorous, more religious. The father of a family does not want to blush before his children. He fears to leave them a heritage of shame. Marry your soldiers, they will not desert any more. Bound to their families, they will be bound also to their fatherland.