B contends that there certainly exists among human beings this feeling which we call love and which lasts not for any definite time, but for life. A talked of passion, B talked of love. A understood only physical attraction. B under- stood the spiritual affinity. Most certainly it is.
Physical attraction is intense and powerful while it lasts.
But if it is not supplemented by spiritual and mental attraction, it soon ends in discord and disgust. Nothing more horrible in life can be conceived by the mind than two beings feeling they are tied together by law, when the one physical bond which formerly united them has become rags and tatters, and no single taste, aspiration, emotion, ambition or belief is in union. Such children are, I believe, in God's eyes, the illegitimate spawn of earth. Love not only makes birth legitimate. Love does exist after youth departs and when beauty of form and feature is no more.