It seems the highest.

You will not easily get a man to believe that his carnal love for the woman he has made his wife is as high a love as that he felt for his mother or sister.
The cream is licked off from life before the boy or the girl is twenty.

Afterwards--repetition, disillusion, and barrenness.
And the cause ?--always the same.

That parents will not make the great resolution to come to rest within themselves, to possess their own souls in quiet and fullness.

The man has not the courage to withdraw at last into his own soul's stillness and aloneness, and _then_, passionately and faithfully, to strive for the living future.