Most moral philosophers consciously or unconsciously assume the essential correctness of our cultural sexual code-family, monogamy, continence, the postulate of privacy that troubled you so, restriction of intercourse to the marriage bed, et cetera.
It is a testament to Darwin's extraordinary insight that it took almost a century for biologists to understand the essential correctness of his views.
I made extensive use of population data; the 1940 census, the 1947 Plantation Count and other sources, in order to show that the present day conditions affirmed the essential correctness of the position we had formulated years before.
Perhaps the pope's act might have even inspired other institutions to re-examine their own historical consciences rather than congratulate themselves on their own essential correctness.
Many scientists and interested laypeople, caught by the stereotype of the "scientific method," find such contingent explanations less interesting or less "scientific," even when their appropriateness and essential correctness must be acknowledged.
The essential correctness of the decision, I think, is verified by the fact that the Reverend Saltini has commed me four times in the last hour to accuse me of 'politicizing' her death, and of 'creating martyrs where there is only misfortune and irresponsibility:' " I exploded. "
In the question session that followed the speech, the publisher of The Miami Herald, Richard G. Capen, said, "We stand by the essential correctness of our story."