not so poetic, but which, perhaps, are more fitting."

"No!" interrupted Gervase, almost fiercely. "There are no words
which truly describe this one emotion which rules the world. I
know what YOU mean, of course; you mean evil words, licentious
words, and yet it has nothing whatever to do with these. You
cannot call such an exalted state of the nerves and sensations by
an evil name."

Dr. Dean pondered the question for a few moments.

"No, I am not sure that I can," he said, meditatively. "If I did,
I should have to give an evil name to the Creator who designed man
and woman and ordained the law of attraction which draws, and
often DRAGS them together. I like to be fair to everybody, the
Creator included; yet to be fair to everybody I shall appear to
sanction immorality. For the fact is that our civilization has
upset all the original intentions of nature. Nature evidently
meant Love, or the emotion we call Love, to be the keynote of the
universe. But apparently Nature did not intend marriage. The
flowers, the birds, the lower animals, mate afresh every spring,
and this is the creed that the disciples of Naturalism nowadays
are anxious to force upon the attention of the world. It is only
men and women, they say, that are so foolish as to take each other
for better or worse till death do them part. Now, I should like,
from the physical scientist's point of view, to prove that the men
and women are wrong, and that the lower animals are right; but
spiritual science comes in and confutes me. For in spiritual
science I find this truth, which will not be gainsaid--namely,
that from time immemorial, certain immortal forms of Nature have