Pitfalls of marriage / Walter M. Gallichan.

  • Walter M. Gallichan
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[1926]
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    would have us believe, antagonists, clamour for sustenance so that through their individual and united fulfilment they may bring peace and joy to the whole nature of a man and woman.” (Mrs. Havelock Ellis: “ i he New Horizon in Love and Life.”) In striving to attain the finer spiritualised ideals of wedded love and to dissociate ” the lower nature ” from “ the higher,” we incur the risk of over¬ sublimating passion to such transparency as may lead to the total disappearance of love. Leo Li. Sera has said that to diminish ” amorous warmth and vigorous vitality ” is to threaten both iove and the strength of the race. “It is to the interest of the race to be propagated by means of the most active and healthy individuals.” And he adds : “ Sentimentalism is the amorous effervescence of cold people. ” Sentiment must, however, be regarded as the curb upon instinctual impulses that menace social well-being. Sera seems to fall into the error of affirming that erotic interest and vigour are likely to decline with the development of “ i>oetie love, platonic love, sentimental love.” 1 cannot find any proof in the writings of cultured v. omen-advocates of “ the greater love ” of the future, of an effort to divorce the bodily from the spiritual in love. Olive Schreiner, Ellen Key, Mrs. Havelock Ellis, Helen Stocker and Sophie Kowalewski are keenly alive to the danger ol under-valuing the physiological basis of the love of the sexes. u
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