PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE 



sun-reddened, hardy cow-girl. Woman's liberty also 

 accentuates the dimorphism but by another process. 

 Freed from the bridle of necessity, from the need of 

 pleasing, woman escaped from the couple, exaggerates 

 her feminism, she becomes again the female in excess, 

 since it is in being more and more female that she 

 has most chances of seducing the male, who is insensible 

 to all other merit. And, inversely, a woman having man's 

 education is, given equal beauty, less than any other a 

 seductress. 



Thus, while the disintegration of the couple augments 

 the feminine dimorphism, the diminution of the natural 

 dimorphism renders the transformation of the couple 

 more uneasy and more precarious. The human couple 

 is an harmony difficult to realize, very easy to destroy, 

 but in measure as one destroys it one frees the elements 

 which will, necessarily, re-create it. (We will return later 

 to polygamy, human and animal ; but must here examine 

 its relation to dimorphism. All the questions treated in 

 this book are, moreover, so interlocked, that it will be 

 difficult to prevent one or other of them from cropping 

 up apropos no matter what other. If the method is less 

 clear it is perhaps more loyal. Far from wishing to 

 impart human logic to nature, one attempts here to 

 introduce a little natural logic into the old classic logic.) 



The sole aim of the couple is to free the female from 

 all care that is not purely sexual, to permit her the most 

 perfect accomplishment of her most important function. 

 The couple favours the female, but it favours also the 

 race. It is fully beneficial when the woman has acquired 

 the right of maternal laziness. There is another reason 

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