The adult experiences are provoked, the adult devotional sympathies are linked up, prematurely, as far as the child is concerned.

We have the heart-wringing spectacle of intense parent-child love, a love intense as the love of man and woman, but not sexual; or else the great brother-sister devotion.

And thus, the great love-experience which should lie in the future is forestalled.

Within the family, the love-bond forms quickly, without the shocks and ruptures inevitable between strangers.

And so, it is easiest, intensest--and seems the best.