The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-12
THE LOVES OF GREAT MEN.
Miss Kate stanton Opens Her Heart ON
the Hearts or Others Before the Liberal

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the Hearts or Others Before the Liberal
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Miss Kate stanton opened her heart on the
Loves OF treat Men" last evening before the
Liberal CLUB Pippton Buildings. When she was
presented to the audience she made an exceedingly
graceful bow, and proceeded 10 tell her auditors
what constituted love. Love a great cody
force, primal IN its origin, Sublime in its illusira
tons, o.nnipotent In its power. IL was evi-
dent that the queenly lecturess was great
believer IN love from ner elaborate eSordum, which
meant substantially, that somewhere IN the uni
verse there is g great tub Of ether in which the
souls OF ali who express owe In its highest form
have been bathed again ana again. Az Miss stan
ton worked into the marrow OF her discourse she
became animated, and her yvacious face expressed
al the tender thoughts which her sweet voice
rpplea 10 the audience, She is lady apparently
OF twenty-five witt a head Il pg1npeT0uaee,
fresh complexion, ana features that
would grace throne. Had she not been loVely
her discourse on love might have been tanner ana
less interesting but as it was love u TOOK o'her
than woman OF iorbidding aspect TO make ~ love-
able. With every phase OF her topic she moduiated
ana mellowea TO her IDEAL When sne tolo now
sh, despised the mercenary love OF the American,
the hold practicality that characterized our ma
tional life ana the unromantic nature OF the
nress conte,npb aud freezing disdain; bnt
il Was 100 much for the lovely lecturess. Then she
wandered OF TO England ana recalled the noble
love of Lovelace who, in his cell IN London Tower
reached one OF the Hottest heights known in the
grand passion Leading her hearers to Egypt she
described tile gorgeous fascinations OF Cleopatra
whose love was among the rrandest OF which
The human heart was capable. She did
not defend the mpurity OF Cleopatra but
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delicious hie-dream. That wondr0us land whose
many mysteries and grandeurs have delighted
all the ages had Tor ITS browning monument the
immortal love OF Cleopatra. Then Miss stanton
rushed OH 10 Rome and told OF many OF the loves OF
the Caesars; and nastening to the tomb OF Heloise
and Abelard at Pege la Chaise, she stood beside
the tomD Of the melancholy couple and pictured
their woes and Joys. For Heloise she had the pro-
ioundest admiration; she adored her memory as
superior nature-an intellectually higher
and intenser than that OF her GIFTED
monk. What a life OF devotion, OF long, unfalter-
ing love had been that Of heloise what a misera-
bic, contemplate companionship and reciprocity
had been that OF Abelard, and the pretty ecturess
and hufriedy al Abeard The constancy OF Heloise
Illustrated the highest quality OF woman. She
would not marry again II she had realized the
divine passion in her first chosen. She
could not accept silver after gold. Then from
the two GATHERINGS. Catherine |. stood behind her
husbands throne and made ner influence felt in
her time, as that OF Aspasia was felt when Pericles
gave direction 10 a new era in the grandeur and
glory OF the world. She knew that Catherine III.
was not chaste yet her example on the throne was
that OF woman loving in all the intensity of the
passion at fortyeight. She told the history OF
PotemEin's devotion to his queenly sweetheart,
and she learned to think Potemkin an excessively
clever beau. Lady Hamilton she took up and
described her, with the needle in her hand, and
thought that her distinguished career as woman
OF loving temper as wife grand Illustration OF
her subject. Elizabeth herself would have been
superb lover ii she had not wished to be great
Queen Miss Stanton wandered from land TO land,
believing the German love to be the truest, the
deepest the great love Of the world. She asked
her hearers to notice the record OF suicides and the
uniform story would be found-a rejected suitor
disappointed heart, a lies hope ruined, suicide
a German 1t was useless to talk OF love
among great Americans. There was not single
example Of it in history TO Josephine she cast
her final anchor, and said that her love was the
greatest OF ala love which would be bright
example to all time. She closed by declaring,
'God Is love, and love is God" and left the impress
sion the audience that she herself would like to
stand practical illustration of the love OF some
great man. During the delivery OF her discourse
the married men edged away from their wives, and
the single waited for the close Of the proceed
ings to recover from the effects OF the love-storm
which howled about the platform.