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HEREDITY. 



The Nature and 

 Duality of Love. 



Objective and 



Subjective 



Affinity, 



The Love of 

 Men and Women 

 Differ. 



Love between the sexes is an expression of life 

 that springs from the activity of the sex nature. 

 From this it must not be understood that sex love, 

 or magnetic attraction, constitutes the only bond 

 of love between the sexes. Love, like all other 

 feelings, faculties and sentiments, is dual in its 

 nature. There is an objective love and a subject- 

 ive love; a carnal affection and a soul affection. 

 The former is a manifestation of the physical ; the 

 latter of the spiritual nature of man. The object- 

 ive, or physical, love, bears the same relation to 

 the sex element that light bears to electricity. It 

 is sex expressed as mind. It is strong or weak in 

 proportion as the sex nature is strong or weak. 

 The physical love develops with the increase of 

 sex power in youth, is strongest in maturity, rises 

 and falls with the vitality or animal vigor and 

 wanes in old age. The subjective phase of love, 

 being an expression of the soul, is not subject 

 to physical conditions or changes ; is not governed 

 or affected by physical appearance, but is depend- 

 ent upon soul harmony. Its action produces an 

 insatiable longing for soul sympathy and compan- 

 ionship. When once it has met and united with 

 its mate it will neither diminish nor relinquish its 

 attachment, even with the ravages of time or the 

 decay of the temple. 



In every well organized person both the object- 

 ive and subjective phase of love exists. The ob- 

 jective usually predominates in man, and the sub- 

 jective in woman. Both are highly essential to 

 health; harmony, happiness and the propagation 

 of the species. The abnormal expression of the 

 objective, or physical, love usually leads to sen- 



