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Show HERE IS ANOTHER VIEW OF LOVE By Dr. Max Nordau Healthy and natural love U always cb arly Conscious of Its purpose. It 's the longing f,r the possession, the i m.iD'1 for that union which Is able to bring about tho origination of pos- : terlty. In strong Individuals love sets free Impulses that are sufficiently pexverful to triumph over every opposing op-posing with nnd to overcome every obstacle. In individual with weak wills It does not become eon verted I into actions. The strength of the love of any he- I lug ought, therefore, not to be measured meas-ured by the exertions which it ppts forth ku order to acquire the beloved, for the magnitude of these exertions depends upon the strength of his will and not upon the strength or his love. It must nevertheless be added to limitations, lim-itations, that In the healthy and normal nor-mal person all tho brain centers are developed in pretty much the same proportions, so that individual who, l.avo weak wills will also hardly pon-sess pon-sess the Instinct of love to any marked mark-ed extent, whereas those Individuals who are abb? to love violently will also, as a rule, possess powerful wills. The difference in tho importance of the two sexes, so far as the maintenance mainte-nance of the race is coucenied. also causes corresponding differences in tlnir amatory lives. The part which the woman plays Is by far the moi important. She has to 6upply the whole material for the formation of a new being, to elaborate It completely xvlthln her own orgaulsm, and, above all. to Impart to It her own qualities, just as she has Inherited them from her forefathers. Man. again, only supplies the stlm ulatlon to this tedious and difficult, nay. heroic work, upon which the quality of the work In question Is to some degree dependent. Just as 1b truth also. To cite an example, the samo dynamite bo ins harmlessly oi fares up brilliantly, or explodes wltt terrific force, according as It Is respectively re-spectively set on flro by a live coal or a lighted match, or an explosive. A woman has an instinctive sensu lion that she ought not to make any mbstake, that any error would have alike for herself and her posterity remits re-mits that could not bo made good, that it xxoubl under all circumstances draw aloog with it the lavish expend-Rure expend-Rure of a comparatively largo amount or organic lalKr, and eho Is, therefore, there-fore, extremely distrustful and careful care-ful to avoid the possibility of such an error. On tho other hand, she realises real-ises as certainty tnat ehe has not i nado a mistake, when Ehe has found the right man, and In viuch a ca;e she will be far more ready to gixe, up her own life than that man. I |