Sir, – Michael Austin (November 13th) makes the rather remarkable claim that marriage “has always, at least implicitly, included the procreative goal of the union of a man and a woman”. By this rationale, a heterosexual couple cannot or should not marry where either the man or the woman is knowingly infertile, or both are, whether by reason of age or otherwise. Mr Austin, albeit it is not his intention, makes a persuasive one-man argument for teaching philosophy, in particular logic, in our schools. – Yours, etc,
THEO DORGAN,
Moyclare Park, Dublin 13.