ig6 Life and Love. 



than violate these human laws. He will not eat 

 the first food he comes to because he is hungry; 

 he will not eat that which belongs to another, even 

 though he starve. 



Hunger, too, has been beautified, so to speak — 

 there is a certain aesthetic feeling connected with 

 it which has made its gratification a social event 

 and surrounded it with beautiful objects. 



And so his whole physical life has been placed 

 upon a new level in the thought of man. His 

 pleasures become those of the intellect rather than 

 those of the body, and physical gratification of any 

 sort is complicated by the most subtle and power- 

 ful mental and emotional phenomena. 



Love is lifted to a new plane, invested with a 

 new meaning. As life dawned in the single cell, 

 so did love dawn in the protozoon. As life grew 

 more complex, so did love outgrow its first primi- 

 tive condition of simple cell-attraction and clothe 

 itself with increasing powers. Upward it struggled, 

 breaking out in prophetic flashes of beauty in the 

 lower forms of life. 



Upward struggled life, creating few new organs, 

 but developing those already existing. And up- 

 ward struggled love, sparingly creating new expres- 

 sions, but infinitely enlarging those powers already 

 feebly acting. 



Both life and love in the sun of human intelli- 

 gence blossomed in beautj', and man passed upward 

 to a plane not reached by other life-forms. For 



