Eric in Ohio’s Reviews > The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia > Status Update
Eric in Ohio
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If I followed this, brother prince dismisses sister Nekayah’s take on family and marriage, ending that she’s hasty to conclude “from the infelicity of marriage against its institution”thus dooming the human race. “‘How the world is to be peopled,” returned Nekayah, ‘is not my care, and needs not be yours. I see no danger that the present generation should omit to leave successors behind them…’”
— Aug 16, 2026 06:39PM
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Eric in Ohio
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“Of the uncertainties of our present state, the most dreadful and alarming is the uncertain continuance of reason.”
— Aug 16, 2026 08:22PM
Eric in Ohio
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Imlac tells the kids about cultural relativism. “To judge rightly of the present we must oppose it to the past; for all judgment is comparative, and of the future nothing can be known.”
— Aug 16, 2026 07:01PM
Eric in Ohio
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“I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children, and those who marry early with their partners.”
This after earlier positing that parents and children are inherently competing against each other (after childhood), and that adults who marry (one in each couple) have to give up their path to follow the path of the partnership.
— Aug 16, 2026 06:46PM
This after earlier positing that parents and children are inherently competing against each other (after childhood), and that adults who marry (one in each couple) have to give up their path to follow the path of the partnership.
Eric in Ohio
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Prince disagrees. Nekayah says discord isn’t inevitable but also not easily avoided.
Prince says, if that’s marriage, I’ll stay single. Nekayah replies that she’s never found the prudence of the single “ought to raise envy.” It’s “a state more gloomy than solitude…” She concludes: “Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.”
— Aug 16, 2026 06:25PM
Prince disagrees. Nekayah says discord isn’t inevitable but also not easily avoided.
Prince says, if that’s marriage, I’ll stay single. Nekayah replies that she’s never found the prudence of the single “ought to raise envy.” It’s “a state more gloomy than solitude…” She concludes: “Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.”
Eric in Ohio
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The prince’s sister, Princess Nekayah, recounts her observations of family and social life.
“This parents and children, for the greatest part, live on to love less and less: and, if those whom nature has this closely united are the torments of each other, where shall we look for tenderness and consolation?”
— Aug 16, 2026 06:16PM
“This parents and children, for the greatest part, live on to love less and less: and, if those whom nature has this closely united are the torments of each other, where shall we look for tenderness and consolation?”
Eric in Ohio
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“Rasselas went often to an assembly of learned men, who met at stated times to unbend their minds, and compare their opinions.” This turns out to be a not so good group of guys. Base.
— Aug 16, 2026 07:40AM
Eric in Ohio
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The hermit they’ve gone to visit says: “The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.”
— Aug 16, 2026 07:37AM