PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE 



over, whether certain eccentric modes of copulation are 

 not fixed fantasies, become habit and having supplanted 

 an anterior method, the animal being little able to employ 

 two customs at once? 



What we have found, at least, is that the love mech- 

 anism is, in nature, of infinite variety, and that if it ap- 

 pears stable in most of the fixed species, it is, in its 

 entirety extremely oscillating, capricious, and fantastic. 



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