The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-12-07
Few Mysteries
in Mans Love.
So Declares Belgian Scientist Who
Has Analysed the Passion.

Father Paulhan, the Belgian scientist. who
has been aualyZing love much as a bOtanist
a~nalyZes the parts Of a flower into stamens.
pistilS. petals. sepalS and the ike, foutS
the idea Of the Unknowable mysteries and
attractions Of Nine. de Staels grande pas
sion.
He d's.sres with MOntaigne. who said in
an essay: IF any one should impOrtune
me- to give a reason why ! love him. I feel
Il could be no otherwise expressed than by
making answer. Because it was he. because
II was l.. Beyond what I am able 10 say
there - I know not what inexpI;cabIe and
inevitable power that brought on this
union"
| NJ Pau'han is not mystifed by his love.
: He knows how 20 dissect Il. In the friend
ship or esteem which people experience for
a certain person he SAYS there ran be dis
ting7i%t@d aS articUlar elements the i'm
! preston which was produced upon US by
rms or that fact OF the person or by the
reading # one Of his works. In the ad-
~r1iration felt for a writer a person can cas-
iy distinguish the particular impression
'hat any particular page OF his works or
any certain quality Of his imagination. Of
his Intelligence. or Of his style.
In love TIE impression produced by some
particular qualities Of the person loved or
: by some particular event in which he or she
paved Some role can h@ recalled In this
way what part this or that quality plays or
circumstance plays in the whole can be
noticed.
HOW TO ANALYZE LOVE.
A good way Of analyzirc love is IN Oh
serve that the images and even the abstrac,
ideas which accompany it all have an emo
tionai bias which 10 easy 10 recognize AMI
That this emotional tendency accompanies
even the IDEAS which are not represented
TO TIE consciousness save bv extremely
yaeUe abstract ideas.
Thus" says VI. PauIhan. "Ff I seek TO
rHvire IN mvS"lf the impression Of such and
such a walk in the te!fs | must yaken in
TIE he vague. abstract ro'orl.ss images;
at the same time a certain collection oe
emotions are produced in me in connection
with these images"
Unfortunately. the important things to be
not ar rarely observed by sweerhearts.
iASy write letters and FL them with OK
IressfoTs of all sorts OF exalted or depress-
ifg emotions, caprice and affection. but thew
90 not tell their states of feeling in a way
mat ehah!es the scientist to Gissect their
true state OF being. They are not minute
enough nor precise enough. The scientist
Is Obliged 10 make interpretations O! what
their words signify and in a certain degree
TO divine the condition OF their minds
IN a certain general way the side purely
snSual and the side intellectual. SO to speak.
are easily recognized in love and passion.
Again the passion reveals its complex char
: acter by the alterations that ii undergoeS
MS Is likely 10 escape the notice of the
people who are In love. but If II does not
escape them 1t is easy Of detection.
EFFECTS OF STORMY PASSION.
When We experience a strong passion wa
ieei our heart throbbing and our breathing
Is qulchened or repreSSed. and other charac-
teristic sensations which are familiar to
every sweetheart. but the passion is none
OF these details nor is it the collection OF
all together" says NJ. Paulham- 1T seems
10 De the impression made by the relations
between them all.
Every idea. every circumstance, every
silshlest occurrence that takes place-in a
WORD. every association with the growth of
the love. modihes its development and mod
lies the passion itself. And the whole
changes with these changing circumstances
and associations"
But there are no two passions alike. Tn.
love OF a stuart Mill is not the same as the
love OF Casanova In the same way the
same man IS not in love generally at 20
Years the same way that he was in love at
Is years Of age.
This is so well known that 1t scarcely
neec5 proof. 1t requires more to arouse
Inc passions CT the % or 10 year old than ir
does to rouse the feelings Of a stripping.
The STRIPPING Is head over heels in love and
stepped with infatuation over every petit
coat that he sees on the street.
There Is q great difference between the
passions OF the two sexes. The passion Of
the woman shows q remarkable difference
In color, In timbre, from that Of the man,
and this difference is manifested in tho
means adopted for satisfying it. Each fol-
lows the particular tendency OF its sex.
There is a capital difference here which IS
not at all understood by the generality Of
noveiists.
Man Is often brutal. violent. He falls in
love with the first woman he meets and
brooks no resistance or reflections. II she
does not prove easy TO win he i'll uses her,
even kills her.
WOMAN'S MANY WEAPONS.
Woman has recourse rather TO her charms
ard to her coq1etricS. She does not neglect
| any OF the weapons which are at her dis
posal. but she never uses either brutality
or force