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Little Essays of Love and Virtue

CHAPTER II
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May we not say of marriage as St.Augustine said of God: 'Rather would I, not finding, find Thee, than finding, not find Thee' ?...

'Because we like' is the sole legitimate and perfect motive of human action....

If this is what Nature affirms then it will be what I believe." This dynamic conception of the sexual impulse, as a force that, under natural conditions, may be trusted to build up a new morality, obviously belongs to an indefinitely remote future.

It is a force whose blade is two-edged, for while it strikes at unselfishness it also strikes at selfishness, and at present we cannot easily conceive a time when "there is no self"; we should be more disposed to regard it as a time when there is much humbug.

Yet for the individual this conception of the constructive power of love retains much enlightenment and inspiration.
It is important for us to note about this dynamic sexual energy in the constitution that while it is very firmly and organically rooted, and quite indestructible, it assumes very various shapes.


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