Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1851-01-17
From sartain's Magazine.
MISS BREMER ON LOVE.

MISS BREMER ON LOVE.
Love is now no more, as in former ages,
clad in armour, in fiery passion, maddcned
By impediments, pursuing its course with
sword and flames. a gentler spirit has breath
ed over earth, breathes in human breasts
Gentler, yes but not less true, not less
strong and tender. What in former ages
was most vital, most deep in love, exists now
as then, yea, may be said to be the chief
love Of our days. And to-day, as in the
DAYS Of Hagbard and Signe. the lover-nOt
overcome BY twenty strong men-wil be
bound by a single hair of his mistress head.
We think, in fact, that love in our times has
deepened-become more spiritualied and
pure. Passion becomes affection, tenderness,
and flowers in the domestic affections, con-
vsrting homes into earthly paradises, and
making mans mind more and more fit for
the paradise of heaven.
There is in Sweden flower generally cali
"a "old love-" Its flowers are white and
elegant, its leaves and whole structure Of the
most refined delieacy and grace it is oflong
life, and keeps fresh even underth snow
And We have seen there, as well as here,
old couples where the love, symbolized in
The plant, was all real where the grace and
charm Of love lowered as fresh and charming
a ever between mate and mate, in a thou
sand instances, and gave reality to the fable
Of that beautiful old couple, to whom the
Gods came as guests, and who, on their pray
e. not to survive one another, received the
eit of immortal union.
Il was such loves that the great English
bard had in view when he sang:
Let me not to the marriage Of :rue minds
Admit impedimenis. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to mover
q! no il is an fixed mark,
That looks on tempest, and Is never shaken +;
Nis he star to every wandering bark,
Whose w0rih's unknown, although his heigh
Be taken.
Loves not times fool, though rosy lips AM
cheeks
Within his sickle's compass come
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks
But bears il out even to the edge Of doom.
M this be errUr, and upon me proved,
never writ, nor no man ever loved.
It was such a marriage which the Swet
ISL seer (Swedenborg) saw in one o his vi
ions, and describes so e.
al saw a chariot driving in the upper SIX.
through the pure morning air. It SCENE
10 me at first that but one individual, radial
and beautiful, was sitting in it but as Il
vision drew nearer l saw that they were tw
man and woman, sitting side by side. Th'
seemed full Of happiness, and so beautif
that It seemed to me they hardly could /
some more 50. But when they turned to O
another they began to radiate, as if cover
ali over with jewels, and became so resple
dent and beautiful that l could hardly be
their sight and again they seemed to m
lie into one, and to be one single individu
an shining with light"
There are minds who are born as it we
married, born double there are also mir
born single and to a single life, ESQ it see
10 me, and 50 1 believe, as well as there
in the armament above US double stars
ways revolving round one another, and
Rle stars revolving about their wi axes
he great central sun, who leads and inspi
All. both double and single stars.
Il is charming to think that in every Vi
in every village of this our earth, we
and loves and lives corresponding with
uictures Of the poet and seer, and that ey
one ofthe little homes we see or the bank
Z rivers and lakes, or in the shelter Of
forests, may harbor the immortal Eros.
/ love to hear love stories, and l low
tell them. Then apart from the int
they have for the human heart, they hay
ways something new, something fresh
original about them, which puts to 81
the old saying Of Solomon, that there is
inc new under the sun. With e
new love some new incidents, some
combination comes up. There is a
breeze over the waters Of the Dead Sea
the desert a fountain gushes forth ant
der the snow Of the Arctic circle the 4
"a Borealis is born.
We should more look to these ever
wonders. And l believe that if every
(vho is anybody, that is, a true h
mind,) would fairly and truly tell US hi
love-story, (be it that Of earthly or hea'
love,) we would have a great deal
good and truly original novels than nO1
10 be found in the world.