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glorified, known in the individual heart and enthroned in Society — this is his one aim. He writes frankly, but always *' with pure heart fervently" as becomes a High Priest of this shrine.

The individual aspect of Love tends to centre round the facts of sex, " making love," marriage, parenthood. Present-day sodety, having learned some wisdom through its sufierings, is beginning to assume an altogether healthier attitude towards thèse matters which lie central to the race-Ufe. There is an increasing volume of demand that young people should be instructed in the sexfacts — a parental obligation more honoured in the breach than in the observance ; sociological science is pushing the Church on one side and examining anew the vahdity of the institution of marriage and the social csSects of the présent conditions under which it exists ; the remarkable development of the Eugenist movement is one of the signs of the times, to say nothing of the Feminist movement, which is Ukely to hâve a revolutionary influence upon ail questions aff ecting the sex-relation.

In the earlier chapters of The Drama of Love and Death Carpenter appears as the author of a modem Ars anuUùris, fuU of homely humour and cunning wisdom, a gentle and engaging guide to one who, in préparation for the great expérience, would exercise himself that he may love wisely ai^d well. He préfaces it by a chapter on