The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-20

| common sense, and sentiment is to be
| suppressed.
| . ''Te idea is now new. 1t has formed the
basis of many societies, notably of the
| Oneida Community that remarkable
| organization of people which fourished in
| this state some 30 years, and whose pur-
pose was, among other things, to breed
| the human species scientifically, as
imals are bred.
1T has been my good fortune to know
intimately a number of the people who
| formed this society, and to talk with
| them concerning it's theories. Absolute
unselfishness of character and life was
demanded of each member, and they es-
sayed, through earnest, religious convic-
| tons, and on scientific principles to car
| ry out a system of mating the sexes and
| producing ideal results, without allowing
personal preferences or individual attrac-
| lions to influence them. And because
| emotional love was not allowed to play
| it's part, 1 believe it is the only reason
| this society does not flourish today; and
no organization of people can ever make
permanent progressive success of any
| society from which this element is ex-
| cluded.
1.-The most powerful force earth is
| the attraction of one man for one wo-
man. All science, all philosophy, what
when two human beings crave each other.
mentally physically and spiritually. 1t
is at once the most beautiful, the most
terrible and the most powerful of forces
in the universe. Only when two beings
are drawn together by this irresistible
emotion, which shuts out every thought,
is marriage moral holy relation.
"Only when two beings love each other
in this supreme and complete fashion
children spiritually legitimate. The
rarest and most richly endowed souls in
| the world are always the fruit of great
| passions. 1t is a scientific fact that the
| average love child is superior to the av-
| erage child born in orthodox marriage
| relations 1t is only when the wife feels
/ the same absorbing love which actuated
| the mother of the natural offspring, that
| she brings forth its equal.
Science can more take the place of
| sentiment, in the religion of the sexes.
! than electricity can replace the beauties
| and wonders of sunlight.
Whatever disasters, disillusions and de-
| spairs a love marriage may finally end
| in one month of absolute love life is worth
| more. in the scale of experience, than 20
| years of friendly comradeshfp between
husband and wife. A mere physical at
| traction, without the bans of mutual re-
| spect, cannot result in a happy union.
| Marriages of this kind are more mar
| riages of sentiment than of common sense
But the true, the divine, the holy and the
| really happy marriage must be builded
| on the cornerstone of love.
| without doubt cases exist where peo-
| pie welded without deep affection and
| love came afterwards. But She expert
| ment is dangerous. The first year of
married life is usually the time when both
| husband and wife encounter the greatest
| number of perplexities and trials. I'm
| less love holds his lamp trimmed and
| burning above their heads to light the
new untrodden path, they liable to
| stumble in the dark places. Two people
| brought up, under entirely different cir
| cumstances and with entirely different
| views of life, cannot at once assimlate
and understand each others peculiarities.
| Two watches manufactured in the same
shop and wound up by the same hand dc
| not keep exact time unless carefully and
| frequently regulated.
| Hearts, however sympathetic, how
| ever similar in tastes, need the skilled
! touch of Cupid, the great regulator, to
| keep them in union, and there is nothing
| love cannot do. Science, compared with
| love, is a babe in swaddling clothes be-
| side giant Science can describe the men,
| tai condition of a wicked man. But love
can change the wicked man into a good
| and law-abiding citizen.
| Science can explain why poverty ex-
| lists, and offer theories for it's allevia ton
But love make heaven out of home
| where poverty exists and turn the desert
| into garden. Science can show the
| wonders of the world about US, while love
| shows us God.
Two people who love each other and
| who resolve to live for each others hap
| piness and welfare have opened the door
| to foretaste of heaven on earth, it, in
deed, they have not obtained actual par
| adise, while at first the common-sense'
| couples who do not believe in sentiment
are at best only comfortable.
! "And even the pains of love are sweeter
| to bear than the comforts of loveless
| lot. Love must be the moving force in
! everything which results in a decided
| overwhelming success.
1.-The most scientific clergyman may
preach cold facts to his audience year af-
| ter year, but unless he feels an intense
| love for his congregation, and for mis-
/ kind, he cannot save humanity nor win
hearts.
| 1.-The greatest artist, the most highly
| gifted, never achieve pronounced sue
! cess unless he loves his work passionate
| ly.
| 1.-THE man who marries a wife he does
not intensely love is to be pitied. He has
| not half lived.
1.-The woman who weds without senti-
| ment is missing life's choicest experience.
| 1.-The mother who brings into the world
| the child of man she does not love- has
| spoiled the best gift of God, no matter
| how much 'common-sense' has guided
| her choice.
! Love and sentiment must be cultivat-
| ed in marriage. not eliminated, if we