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diff --git a/57423-8.txt b/57423-0.txt index 23e7529..401f80d 100644 --- a/57423-8.txt +++ b/57423-0.txt @@ -1,35 +1,8 @@ -The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Book of Love, by Paolo Mantegazza +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 57423 *** -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and -most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll -have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using -this ebook. -Title: The Book of Love - -Author: Paolo Mantegazza - -Release Date: June 30, 2018 [EBook #57423] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOOK OF LOVE *** - - - - -Produced by Turgut Dincer, Martin Pettit and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -book was produced from images made available by the -HathiTrust Digital Library.) - @@ -359,7 +332,7 @@ Evanescence of forms is one of the most essential characteristics of living beings, and we give the name of death to the falling of every leaf from the tree of life. Man, also, drops some of these leaves every day--hair, epithelia, cells, which often produce a secretive substance -and fall with it. Before dying, a part of the preëxisting form remains +and fall with it. Before dying, a part of the preëxisting form remains to re-animate the dead form and follows in its turn the parabolical cycle through which the mother form has passed. This is the most general principle and includes all possible kinds of generation, from that of @@ -393,7 +366,7 @@ reproduction increases beyond measure, the dangers for the individuals generated increase at the same time, and destruction mows down the excessive number of those which are born. Now it is food that is no longer proportionate to the new-born; then parasites and enemies of the -over-expanded species, which, increasing in turn, reëstablish the +over-expanded species, which, increasing in turn, reëstablish the equilibrium. The destructive forces and the protective balance mutually, as happens with many other forces, simpler and better known. @@ -401,7 +374,7 @@ The Malthusian problem, however, is much more intricate. If all species were equally prolific and had a life of equal length, the problem would, in fact, be reduced to a question of space and food; but, on the contrary, the duration of life and the various degrees of fecundity -serve in turn to reëstablish the equilibrium by other ways. If the +serve in turn to reëstablish the equilibrium by other ways. If the reproduction of mice were as slow as that of man, they would all be destroyed before another generation could be born; and even if they could live fifteen or sixteen years, not one of them, perhaps, would @@ -424,7 +397,7 @@ in the great book of nature, is one of those that rule with the most inflexible tyranny the elementary phenomena of reproduction, as well as the highest and most complex phenomena of human love. -In the _Diatomaceæ_ the fecundity by scission is gigantic: Smith +In the _Diatomaceæ_ the fecundity by scission is gigantic: Smith reckoned that a single gnat could create a thousand million individuals in one month. A young _Gonium_, capable of scission after twenty-four hours, can produce in a week 268,435,456 individuals equal to itself. In @@ -433,7 +406,7 @@ endogenous, as with the _Volvox_; but the reproduction is always extraordinary. If all the individuals generated should survive, a _Paramecium_ would, by scission, produce in the course of a month 268,000,000 individuals. Another microscopic animal can produce -170,000,000,000 individuals in four days. The _Gordius_--the entozoön of +170,000,000,000 individuals in four days. The _Gordius_--the entozoön of an insect--lays 8,000,000 eggs in less than a day. An African termite lays 80,000 eggs in twenty-four hours, and Eschricht reckoned at 64,000,000 the number of eggs in the adult female of an _Ascaris @@ -555,7 +528,7 @@ of life? A particular motion, originated in the ovary and in the testis, accumulates such energy in the nervous centers as eventually to bring the masculine element in contact with the feminine, so that the -generative gemmulæ produced in the slow laboratory of two different +generative gemmulæ produced in the slow laboratory of two different organisms reunite in that nest which is the maternal womb and where the fecundated egg must transform into a human being. @@ -584,7 +557,7 @@ organism, and encloses and preserves them in itself in order to pour them into the bosom of other elements, similar but not equal, generated in another laboratory, that is, the opposite sex. When the two generative laboratories are separated in two distinct organisms, it is -probable that the diversity of their gemmulæ is greater. If in +probable that the diversity of their gemmulæ is greater. If in individuals closely resembling each other, but of different races, we combine the generative elements, we still will probably have fecundity; while, if we pass to different species, fecundity will be more @@ -797,7 +770,7 @@ loves of plants and of animals. Nature could not write more fascinating music with a less number of notes, and no other phenomenon of life can resemble that of generation in profusion of forms, lavishness of artifices, inexhaustible conception of mechanisms. One would say that -where the reproductive gemmulæ are attracted, where life reconcentrates +where the reproductive gemmulæ are attracted, where life reconcentrates its best part to renovate itself with a new impetus, there new and strange energies are developed, and the forces of nature appear with the most gigantic pomp, the most gorgeous luxury. In every other function, @@ -992,7 +965,7 @@ shrug, a rebuff and a voluptuous quiver close that first scene of love. At times the little female seems about to yield to the impatient embraces of her companion; and when he, with the trepid anxiety of him who is about to grasp happiness, is very close to her and on the point -of touching with his pubescent and loving antennæ the velvety body of +of touching with his pubescent and loving antennæ the velvety body of his beloved one, she flies two yards away, and he after her and again and again is met with mockery and cajoleries. The heat increases and the surcharged desire has become as ardent as the sun. The coquette has @@ -1010,13 +983,13 @@ angels love; but does any planet shelter a human creature that lives with wings also in heaven? Now those two butterflies come near to each other, so near as to touch, -to kiss with their antennæ; then in a wink one bounds upon the other and +to kiss with their antennæ; then in a wink one bounds upon the other and with a leisurely, sweet, prolonged caress, fondly they kiss each other with their wings. And then they repose, as though they wished to relish the sweetness of that grand and voluptuous caress, in which the wing of the one softly and slowly kisses the silk and velvet of his companion. How sweet, how sensual must be the caress of two wings which with a -thousand scintillating papillæ touch each other in a perfect +thousand scintillating papillæ touch each other in a perfect juxtaposition, and yet in this intermingling of nerves and velvet do not lose one single speck of that golden dust which adorns them! @@ -1139,7 +1112,7 @@ forces as in love, and the queerest phenomena are interlaced around the union of the sexes, which, unique in essence, assumes the most varied forms. The philosopher, the poet, the artist, should study with interest the thousand ways in which living beings exchange the germinative -gemmulæ, and they would find subjects for profound meditation and a +gemmulæ, and they would find subjects for profound meditation and a strong incentive to inspiration. Only in the eyes of the hypocrite or of the idiot many loves of living beings may seem brutal battles or lascivious embraces. Nowhere does Nature manifest herself more powerful, @@ -1925,7 +1898,7 @@ How subtle and mysterious must that high chemistry be which unites the germinative elements of two organisms of different sex to renew life and generate a new organism! It does not suffice that in the calm and long silence of thirty or forty years, half lived by a man and half by a -woman, the gemmulæ have prepared and made ready to call and attract each +woman, the gemmulæ have prepared and made ready to call and attract each other; it does not suffice that the powerful energies of sexual affinities have accumulated; it still does not suffice that a sudden sympathy shall prepare the spark and the conflagration. All this long @@ -2089,7 +2062,7 @@ as adorers and whom she deems it opportune to keep in bondage, tying them to herself with the subtle but strong thread of hope. In the gravest cases the heart cannot be given to any one, because it has been promised to all, and the huge task of pleasing many wearies the -sentiment and breaks the vertebræ of character in such a way as to make +sentiment and breaks the vertebræ of character in such a way as to make impossible the development of any sincere and ardent affection. The most indefatigable coquettes and the most worn-out flirts never love; and if, in questions of love, not falling means to be virtuous, then coquetry @@ -2175,7 +2148,7 @@ seductions; but, at the bottom, there should ever remain a female, and under the wings of an angel and a cherub there should always be an Eve. And man may torture his ambition in order to bend it under the heel of love, and spur his talent so that it may throw its treasures at the feet -of his idol; he may be a hero or a martyr, Spartacus or Cæsar, a tamed +of his idol; he may be a hero or a martyr, Spartacus or Cæsar, a tamed lion or a roaring lion; but in his loves let him always be as manly as ever, so that woman, after having stripped her hero, may always find an Adam. Seduction is never baseness, never violence, never treachery, @@ -2293,7 +2266,7 @@ the highest; therefore, it cannot be considered alone as a dynamometer of progress. The Tehuelches of South America bathe very often, generally before dawn: but the men go into the water separately from the women; they are very modest people who never, in any case, take off their -_chirípas_. And the Japanese, with a civilization a hundred times +_chirÃpas_. And the Japanese, with a civilization a hundred times superior to that of the Tehuelches, are much inferior to them in the matter of modesty. The Malaysians are very modest, but the Greeks and the Romans were none too much so. Without leaving our own race and @@ -2539,7 +2512,7 @@ A virgin is ours a thousand times more than any other woman; she must love us much, or at least she must desire an embrace much, to descend from the pedestal of the idol and come to us; to descend from the altar and tread the vulgar ground of earthly life. And the mystery of the -unknown, and the fascination of primitiæ, and of being the first teacher +unknown, and the fascination of primitiæ, and of being the first teacher of the art of love, centuplicate for us the sweet joys of a first embrace. Even the dreadful trepidation of finding the temple violated holds us suspended over the abysses of desperation and voluptuousness, @@ -2776,7 +2749,7 @@ generated light. I open the book of human deeds and read: not blushed to describe the naked scenes which Theodora was not ashamed to exhibit in the theatre. After the mention of a narrow girdle, which she wore, as none could appear stark naked in the - theatre, Procopius adds: [Greek: anapeptôkuia]. After exhausting + theatre, Procopius adds: [Greek: anapeptôkuia]. After exhausting the arts of sensual pleasure, she most ungratefully murmured against the parsimony of nature, wishing a _fourth altar_, on which she might pour libations to the god of love. After having been @@ -2794,7 +2767,7 @@ frontiers within which human voluptuousness struggles, an insatiable author of so much good and so much evil. And yet, in the eyes of science it is nothing but "the most powerful of chemical affinities comprehended by the most perfect of living brains." Prepared in the slow -laboratory of a man and a woman, the gemmulæ of life intensely seek each +laboratory of a man and a woman, the gemmulæ of life intensely seek each other and are reciprocally attracted; and when love gathers them by millions and millions, they kiss and join and, quivering, restore one of the most prodigious equilibriums of nature and generate a man. @@ -4704,7 +4677,7 @@ I have previously stated that the influence of love over thought is twofold, and we have still to study its second manifestation, namely, the influence exerted by the psychical nature of the person loved. Two creatures who love each other are two bodies differently electrified, -continually exchanging currents of energy in order to reëstablish the +continually exchanging currents of energy in order to reëstablish the equilibrium of forces and obey the law of universal affinity. But, since no two identical creatures, no two identical brains, no two identical sentiments ever exist in nature, it follows that, of the two thoughts @@ -5047,7 +5020,7 @@ abuse or imposition from any quarter. Nature has given woman the greatest part of love, and if this difference could be expressed with figures, I would say that we were allotted one fifth, or one fourth at most, of love's territory. Only a woman could -write Mme. de Staël's sublime words: "Undoubtedly, in the mysteries of +write Mme. de Staël's sublime words: "Undoubtedly, in the mysteries of nature, to love and still to love is what we have retained of our celestial inheritance." Neither civilization in any of its most varied phases, nor customs in their numberless forms, nor impositions of @@ -5128,7 +5101,7 @@ Do not ask woman why she loves. She can love such ugly, poor, deformed creatures as to astonish and horrify us. If that creature can only be hers, she will know how to adorn him with the flowers of imagination, illumine him with the brilliant light which comes from her heart. When -woman loves she almost never doubts of being loved. Has Cæsar ever +woman loves she almost never doubts of being loved. Has Cæsar ever doubted of winning a battle? Has Napoleon ever doubted of being immortal? So it is with woman's love; she will creep like a reptile at the feet of her companion, or roar like a lion which wants what it @@ -5190,7 +5163,7 @@ the bread and wine of her life as the jailer does with the thief; and, tyrants in love as well, we have kept the lion's share both in voluptuousness and in the free choice of the sovereign affection. But every injustice must be paid for, just as the equilibrium is -reëstablished every time it has been disturbed; and the continual +reëstablished every time it has been disturbed; and the continual deceptions, only too well justified, of our slaves, seraglio conspiracies and palace plots, are every day evidence that we erect upon a false foundation the edifice of family, and loudly proclaim that it @@ -5637,7 +5610,7 @@ throb, to apply then and there a cataplasm to bring it back to its duty, and modesty to justify the perpetual ice, and virtue to apologize for the absence of aroma. Oh, why did not heaven make us out of this blessed, soft, sweet paste? Oh, why can we not reduce love to a problem -of hygiene and régime? +of hygiene and régime? From this zero of the amatory scale we gradually rise to the maximum degree of the pyrometer, where every metal is melted and volatilized and @@ -5912,7 +5885,7 @@ love; and suicide, homicide and insanity count in cemeteries and hospitals a much greater number of victims than are reckoned in the summary statistics of our sociologists. All this, of course, is for those who love with heart and mind and not with senses only. He who sees -in love a question only of régime and hygiene recovers from the loss of +in love a question only of régime and hygiene recovers from the loss of his sweetheart with a tear and a new conquest; cures betrayal with betrayal, and with licentiousness heals every malady of the heart and drowns all his sorrows in his libertinism. @@ -6073,7 +6046,7 @@ which, according to some persons, has decreed that no one shall be happy on this planet. In this field of evil, temperament is everything; to some individuals -the phrase of Linnæus concerning the loves of the cat may be applied: +the phrase of Linnæus concerning the loves of the cat may be applied: "_Clamando misere amat_." For these unfortunates (we have already described them) love is imbued with so much bitterness and surrounded by so many nettles that it actually resembles a bramble, all thorns and @@ -6154,7 +6127,7 @@ a volcano in the heart, to be at the gates of paradise and inhale through the portal its inebriating perfumes--and then, after all this, to become conscious of having been transformed into a vessel which satisfies the thirst, to feel in the bosom a roaring beast--to be a part -of the régime of a man, like magnesia or leeches--truly this is more +of the régime of a man, like magnesia or leeches--truly this is more cruel torture than the inquisitors ever invented; it is really too great a sorrow for a lonely weak creature! @@ -6498,7 +6471,7 @@ this book: legislator to destroy in the social organism, with iron and fire, that livid and cancerous spot called prostitution; neither have I given the alarm or extolled it as a miracle when I heard the - _auto-da-fé_ invoked against the houses of ill fame by moralists + _auto-da-fé_ invoked against the houses of ill fame by moralists who have had the rare fortune of having been born without the sixth sense, or the still rarer merit of smothering it with the extinguisher of an iron will. But when I hear these intolerant @@ -6729,7 +6702,7 @@ at every step and, what is worse, offends and wounds the sentiment of justice. It is a written law that adultery is a crime to be punished with the gravest penalties, but in actual life adultery is the most common and most venial sin ever known; it is not only tolerated, but -fêted and almost accepted as a social institution. The incitement to +fêted and almost accepted as a social institution. The incitement to prostitution is considered a very serious crime, but many legislators sell their daughters to a rich husband who cannot love her, never will love her and will drive her to adultery with the force of irresistible @@ -6916,7 +6889,7 @@ There is, however, a lie in love that excels all lies, a betrayal that surpasses all others; there is a perfidiousness that outclasses every assassination, every homicide, every rape: love with the wife of another, a crime which, protected by the law, cherished by consuetudes, -fêted by our infamously hypocritical customs, avoids prison and scaffold +fêted by our infamously hypocritical customs, avoids prison and scaffold only because it takes the simple and easy precaution not to be termed adultery. To introduce ourselves into the sanctuary of a happy family, to become a friend to him whom we wish to betray, to cover him with the @@ -7399,365 +7372,4 @@ THE END End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Book of Love, by Paolo Mantegazza -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOOK OF LOVE *** - -***** This file should be named 57423-8.txt or 57423-8.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/7/4/2/57423/ - -Produced by Turgut Dincer, Martin Pettit and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -book was produced from images made available by the -HathiTrust Digital Library.) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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