LOVE RESTORED

intercourse of men and women who will speak of them vnih simplidty, without shame, and as eqnals in dignity, Imowledge, désire, and racelove. Even through the heavy and fuliginous atmosphère of commerciaUsm, the vision must be caught again of Love adorable and omnipotent, suprême in worth and splendour, the one real thing in ail the world, most precious and desiraUe, Aphrodite once more rising from the waves of the sea.

It is probable that the reason why, in thèse days, the social consciousness is disturbed and soÛcitous about the questions of sex and marriage is because somehow or other Love is being wronged herein and dispossessed of its " crown rights." ' * Except Love build the house, they labour in vain that build it." If the right feeling can be restored in the hearts of men and women still capable of giving it habitation and allegiance, législation and reform will follow necessarily and efïectively. In thèse matters again, therefore, Carpenter is less a reformer than he is a revealer and a re-valuer.

Thus far, individual Love has been regarded as Ipng only between persons of différent sex ; but no account of the phenomena of Love would be complète which did not recognise that a prof ound and even passionate affection may, and frequently does, exist between persons of the same sex. It has the same exalting, purifying, redeeming efïects hère, although it is less focussed, more ^uffused ;