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season of love, and man is similarly affected in his 

 psychic nature. Every human and divine element 

 responds to the witchery of the god of love. And 

 new colors in thought and character appear, and 

 the glowing eye glistens with changing smile or 

 tear, like dewdrops on the jewelled face of morn. 

 The first touch of poetry lights up the prosy brain, 

 the first ambitions, brilliant hopes, struggles, flashes 

 of genius, and heroic resolves spring forth like liv- 

 ing phantoms at the magic power of this matchless 

 magician of the soul. 



Woman, far more than man, is reared in the re- 

 gions of love, and has more leisure to reflect on the 

 secret movements of her heart, and to gather the 

 wisdom and beauty of love and distill it as the 

 rarest perfume of life. Love is woman's crown 

 of divinity. Love lifts man to his highest capabili- 

 ties, noblest enterprises and loftiest ideals, and 

 makes him monarch of a larger and more beauti- 

 ful world. 



The history of man shows how gross and abject 

 natures are transformed by love. How dull and 

 stolid minds have been guided by it to paths of 

 honor and glory. It is said that fame and science 

 should guard themselves from love as from a dan- 

 gerous enemy, and that to be a great man one 

 must love their art alone and be wed only to their 

 great ambitions. 



Ah ! but for one genius killed by love, a hundred 

 owe to it all their greatness and inspiration and 

 the moving force of life, and bless it as superior to 

 fame and sweeter than all the laurels of victory 

 or the plaudits of success. 



All the glory of art and science, of thrones and 

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