The people's common sense medical adviser in plain English, or, Medicine simplified . hope, strengthens faith and enhancesdevotion. It quickens the perceptions, inten-sifies the sensibilities and redoubles the augments muscular activity and impartsgrace to every movement, ^fhe desire to loveand be loved is innate and forms as ranch a part of our being as bone or reason. In fact Love may be con-sidered as the very foundation of our spiritual existence, as boneand reason are the essential bases of our ]>hysical and intelle(?tualbeing. Every man or woman, feels the influence of this
The people's common sense medical adviser in plain English, or, Medicine simplified . hope, strengthens faith and enhancesdevotion. It quickens the perceptions, inten-sifies the sensibilities and redoubles the augments muscular activity and impartsgrace to every movement, ^fhe desire to loveand be loved is innate and forms as ranch a part of our being as bone or reason. In fact Love may be con-sidered as the very foundation of our spiritual existence, as boneand reason are the essential bases of our ]>hysical and intelle(?tualbeing. Every man or woman, feels the influence of this love-element, sooner or later. It is the Kadosh-barnea of humanexistence ; obedience to its intuitions insures the lichest bless-ings of life, while neglect or perversion enkindles His wrath,even as did the disobedience of the wandering Israelites. 248. The one great fact which pervades the universe is ac-tion. The very existence of Love demands its activity, andhence the highest hapjnness is attained by a normal and legiti-mate development of this element of our being. The heart. CONJUGAL LOVE. 1U5 demands an <»l)joct upon wliich to lavish the largess of its affec-tion. In tlie absence of all »»thers, a star, a flower, or even abird will receive this honiage. The bird warbles a gay answerto the well-known voice, the flower repays the careful cultivatorby displaying its richest tints, the star twinkles a bright goodevening to the lonely watcher and yet withal there is an un-satistied longing in the lovers heart, to which neither can respond— the desire to be loved! Hence the perfect peace of recipro-cated love. If its laws are violated, nature seeks revenge inthe utter depression or prostration of the vital energies. Thushas the Divine Law-giver engraven His command on our verybeing. To love is therefore a duty, the fulfillment of whichshould engage our noblest powers. 249. This emotion manifests itself in several phases promi-nent among which is filial affection — th
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