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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The intense interest which L'Amour has excited in Paris and Londoi since its appearance in January last, seemed to have created a call for its immediate production in this country; and in the necessarily short time allowed by the publishers, it would have been impossible for the whole task to be. correctly performed by any one person. Therefore, to my friends Frank Wood and B. Ellis Martin, Esqs., of this city, by whom the original hurried draft of this translation was made, I here acknowledge my great indebtedness. J. W. P. New Yobs, May 20, 1869. port.?-Under harsh, cynical, and materialistic exteriors, they have nevertheless founded one of those grand ideas of the soul, which may be called (when it concerns woman) the Oreed of Mercy.?They have humanized marriage, removed from it the material barbarism which still clung to it.?They have demonstrated that what was called impurity is the monthly wound of love, and fruitfulness itself.?Tiy have established, that from the highest to the lowest, from tlie least of created things up to the greatest, fecundation is not ephemeral, but often prolonged far into the future.?The physical principle which consecrates the stability of marriage.?Love implies a soaring towards the infinite, and a flight into eternity, . j chapter{{Section 4Love INTRODUCTION. Thk title which would fully express the desigt of this book, its signification, and its import, would tie: Moral Enfranchisement, Effected by True Love. This question of Love is lodged, immense and obscure, under the depths of human life. It even supports its bases and its lowermost foundations. The Family rests upon Love, and Society upon the family. Hence Love goes before everything. As the manners are, so is the community. Liberty would be but a word if we preser...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217844680 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217844685 |
| Weight | 0.68 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.47 In |
| List Price | $23.15 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 206 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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