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their faith in the imperishable potentialities of this 

 yet most simple institution. 



With all these barriers removed it might now be 

 supposed that the process was at last complete. 

 But one of the surprises of Evolution here awaits 

 us. All the arrangements are finished to fan the 

 flame of love, yet out of none of them was 

 love itself begotten. The idea that the existence 

 of sex accounts for the existence of love is untrue. 

 Marriage among early races, as we have seen, has 

 nothing to do with love. Among savage peoples 

 the phenomenon everywhere confronts us of wedded 

 life without a grain of love. Love then is no neces- 

 sary ingredient of the sex relation ; it is not an 

 outgrowth of passion. Love is love, and has 

 always been love, and has never been anything 

 lower. Whence, then, came it? If neither the 

 Husband nor the Wife bestowed this gift upon 

 the world, Who did ? It was A Little Child. Till 

 this appeared, Man's affection was non-existent ; 

 Woman's was frozen. The Man did not love the 

 Woman ; the Woman did not love the Man. But 

 one day from its Mother's very heart, from a shrine 

 which her husband never visited nor knew was there, 

 which she herself dared scarce acknowledge, a Child 

 drew forth the first fresh bud of a Love which was 

 not passion, a Love which was not selfish, a Love 



