The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-29
H DWARD CARPENTER, philosopher
 F poet, and essayist, and called the - Walt Whitman D of England, says


 T poet and essayist, and called the 1 Walt Whitman" of England, says
 that the time is coming when people will be taught how to love and how to die just as they are taught to read and write.
 Love and death, says Mr. Carpenter in his latest work, "T The Drama of Love and Death. Study of Human Evolution and Transig- uration," move through this world of ours like things apart-underrunning it truly, and everywhere present, yet seeming to belong to Some other mode of existence In real sense he suggests, they dominate and overawe us. In presence either of love or of death we feel ourselves helpless. When death comes, break ing into the circle of our friends words fail us, our mental machinery ceases to operate, all our litle stores of wit and wisdom, our maxims, our notices, accumulated from daily experience, evaporate and are of no avail And with love, though in an opposite sense, it is the same. Words are of no use, all our philosophy fails-whether to account for the pain to describe the glory of the experi- ence.
 Is it possible, asks Mr. Carpenter, that at length and after ages we may attain to lib crate ourselves from their overlordship-to dominate them and make them our ministers and attendants? Can we wrest them from their seeming tyranny over the human race, and from their hostility to each other? Can we persuade them to lay aside their disguise and appear to us for what they no doubt are even the angels and messengers of new order of experience?
 Mir. Carpenter feels that these questions can be answered in the affirmative. And taking up, first of al the question of love- he ex- presses surprise that so small a beginning has yet been made toward facing 1t, in any se- rious sense, at all.
 No denies the fundamental importance of the experience we call falling in love" It changes the whole character of man and of woman. It is often disturbing experiences, full of dangers and pitfalls. Yet all are left practically without guidance to find their way: The positive value of love-" says MT. Car penter, It's positive cultivation as a gracious, superb, and necessary part of our lives has hardly Cat least In the Anglo-Saxon world) entered into peoples minds
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 Treatiscs Must Delpe Deep.
 There are treatises on the art of love- 1t is true, of the nature of Ovids ATS Amatoria D or the Kamasutra {" of vatsayana; but they are concerned mainly or wholly with the de- tails and technicalites of the subject. " It is hke," says MT. Carpenter, instructions given to boatman on the minuti@ of his craft how to contend with wind and wave, how to use sail and oar, to steer, to tack, to Huff to breaker, and so forth; all very good and necessary in their way, but who is there to point us our course over the great ocean and the stars by which to direct it?" The later works on this great subject will need to delve into the deep realms of psychology, biological science, and ultimately of religion.
 As steps in the creation of this new art and science of love MT. Carpenter has many sug- gestions to offer. One of his maxims might be expressed follows: "Avoid .self-con- sciousness. Do not make love. Let love make you" In this connection he says
 Self-consciousness is fatal to love- The self-concious lover never arrives The wom- an looks at himand then she looks at some thing more interesting. And so, too, the whole modern period of commercial civilization and Christianity has been fatal to love; for both these great movements have concentrated the thoughts of men on their own individual sal vation-C Christianity on the salvation of their souls and commercialism on the salvation of their money bags. They have bred the self regarding consciousness in the highest degres ; and so though they may have had their uses and their parts to play in the history of man. kind, they have been fatal to the communal spirit in society and they have been fatal to the glad expression of the soul in private life.
 Marriages Mdred bp Haste.
 Another thing that Mir. Carpenter would have us remember is that marriages, while they may may not be made in heaven, are marred by haste "A long foreground of ap- proach. time and tact diffusion of magnetism, mersenee in one another, suffering and even