The book of exposition = Kitab al-izah fi'ilm al-nikah b-it-tamam w-al-kamal : literally translated from the Arabic with translator's foreword, numerous important notes illustrating the text, and several interesting appendices / by an English bohemian.

Date:
1900
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Credit: The book of exposition = Kitab al-izah fi'ilm al-nikah b-it-tamam w-al-kamal : literally translated from the Arabic with translator's foreword, numerous important notes illustrating the text, and several interesting appendices / by an English bohemian. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    heart of Man.—Poets of all lands and of all times have sung in immortal verses its praises and enchant- ments. Novelists have exhausted their wit and ingenuity to unravel the varied webs of noble heroism or criminal conspiracy woven on the ever-busy shuttles of Human Passion. From the days of Adam until now, Woman has played the leading, if inconspicuous, rdle in all the changeful drama of the world’s history. In a famous mystic book there occurs 'a fine phrase, which is as true as it is well-expressed:—“Love is strong as death. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.” ‘) Letourneau says: “ This is not exaggerated; we may even say that love is stronger than death, since it makes us despise it. This is perhaps truer with animals than with man, and is all the more evident in proportion as the rational will is weaker, and prudential calculations furnish no check to the impetuosity of desire.” 2) Napoleon well said that men are but grown-up children, influenced mainly through the imagination. The heart prompts the intellect, and the intellect rules the will, and the will chisels out the rough- hewn block of life. Sexuality plays the supreme rOle in all phases of human experience. In striking contrast with the sentiment of Tennyson quoted at the head of the present Chapter, Shakspeare has remarked: “ Love is a familiar; love is a devil; there is no evil angel but love. Yet was Samson so tempted, and he had an excellent strength; yet was Solomon so seduced, ’) “ Solomon’s Song, viii, 6, 7. *) “The Evolution of Marriage,” chap. i. part. IV. XU