The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-06-18
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TIE Passions IN THEIR RELATIONS To
ths b Observation-Disclosures lire from
ate of the Academy of Medicine of Paris
etc. BY Howard F. Damon, A. NJ, NJ
ID. Boston, James Campbell, Publisher
! 1873. For sale by Spaulding & Co.
Rutland.
The author sets forth the beauties of true
love, not passion. He thinks marriage il
the only true consummation of love-the
only safeguard to society and health. On
page 46 he shows how celibacy has been
stigmatized and marriage honored.
The Jews excluded bachelors from the
assemblies of the people the Spartans for.
babe them in the theaters and had festivals
where women scourged them, in public
places; the Romans did not receive their
testimony in court for a long period in
Switzerland and Germany the fortunes OF
bachelors reverted to the state. In other
countries they were subjected to a tax.
He says marriage inspires the highest and
best energies of man to support his wife
and famiy-that there are more Migrants
among the unmarried than amoi the mar
ried is well known. 1t is useful to man in.
dividually and no less so to society. Man
should be 25 years old and women 20 be.
fore marrying. Then the physical devel-
opment has reached its highest standard
and become settled.
There are some startling tables of the
causes of crime in France He reasons
well about ideness as the greatest cause of
libertinism:
He gives most excellent advice-much of
1t directed especially to the false delicacy
OF parents in not properly teaching their
children-young children too-the dangers
of undermining the health and mind, often
in ignorance.
climate and manners are not without in
fiuence on the varied forms of love. Pas
sion shows itself burning and cruel in
Spain, voluptuous and lascivious in Italy,
lively and tickle in France, tender and SEN
timcntal in Germany, melancholy and calm
in England, cold and brutal in Lapland.
There are several important points on
the subject fully dwelt upon, which we
have not taken up because It were better
the reader should have it in the authors
own language Certainly every word of
advice is worth careful reading.
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