West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-04-27
LOVE-.
Every EoIlyo Of Woman Is Born of the Stu
pidity Of Man.

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Selected for the DEMOCRAT:
This question of Love is lodged,
immense and obscure, under the
depths of human life. 1t even
supports its lowest foundations.
The family rests upon Love, and So
ciety upon the family. Hence Love
goes before everything.
As the manners are, so is the
community Liberty would be but
word if we preserved the habits OF
Here we seek the Ideal. The
ideal which can, be realized to-day,
not that which we must postpone
for better state of society. 1t is
the reform of Love and of the Fam
ily which must precede all others,
for it alone can render them posi-
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One fact is incontestable. In the
midst of all our material aud intel
lectual progress, our Moral sense
has degenerated. Everything ad-
vances and developes, one thing
alone recedes; it is the Soul.
We cannot conceal from ourselves
that in these latter times the Incli-
nations have undergone profound
changes.
The causes of this are numerous.
l will state two only, mental and
physical at the same time, which,
going straight to the brain and
deadening it, tend to paralyze all
our moral facilities.
For century past, the increasing
invasion of spirituous liquors and
narcotics has been marching ire
sistibly. with results varying ac-
eording to the population-here OBJ
scuring the mind, ,hopelessly deprav-
ing it-there penetrating deeper in
to the physical economy, reaching
even to the race itself.
Marriages are steadily on the de-
crease (ride the official reports. J.
And, what is not less serious, the
woman is not married until very
late. Hence, eight or ten years Of
waiting, most frequently of misery,
sometimes of disease in conse-
quence Marriage is not even bind
ing enough to warrant desertion.
An inhuman state OF things is
that where love is but war upon
the woman, profiting by her misery,
debasing her; and, when debased,
casting her off to starve.
1t has been fully felt from the
commencement Of the century that
this question of love is the essential
question, which is being discussed
under the very foundations of socie-
ty. Where love is established and
powerful. everything is strong, solid
and fruitful.
The lllustrious UtOpians who, on
so many subjects on that Of educa-
tion, for example,) have thrown
much and vivid light, have not been
so fortunate on the subject of love.
Here they have shown, l will venture
to say, but little independence of
mind. Their theories. bold in form,
are not the less. in substance, sub
servient to fact, timidly predicated
on the manners OF the times. They
found polygamy, and they bowed
down before it, creating polygamic
Utopas for the future.
Without any great phylosophic
research, in order to find the true
law for this matter, they might have
consulted History simply, and Nat
ural History. In History, races of
men are powerful in mind and body,
exactly in the ratio of their mono
gamic life.
In our day the question of love
has been profoundly considered.
Writers of genius, one in immortal
romances, another under theo-
retical form, eloquent, acrimonious,
and austere, have forcibly agitated
it. For reasons which will be un.
derstood, refrain from examining
their books; our points Of discuss
ion will appear plainly enough in
my own. ! will permit myself to
say, however, despite my admira
tion and sympathetic respect, that
on neither side has the gist of the
matter been satisfactorily penetrat-
ed.
It's two faces, the one physiologi-
cal, the other moral, yet remain
yelled.
The discussion continues without
any one knowing, or deigning to re-
mark, that it bears upon more than
one point where the supreme author
ity, that offacts, has pronounced its
verdict, and settled the matter be-
yond all cavil. The object of love,
woman, in her essential mystery
long unknown, unrecognized, was
revealed by series of discoveries,
dating from 1927 to lS47. We now
know this sacred being, who precise
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