Excerpt from Chapters on Human Love<br><br>These pages treat upon human love and the union of the sexes in their evolutionary, historic, and physiological aspects. I do not by any means profess that this is a fully comprehensive treatise on this stupendous subject but I have endeavoured to collate and classify within the scope of this volume a great number of facts concerning love in mankind in the past ages and in the present time. It has been my aim to elucidate part of the mystery, and to correct certain misapprehensions regarding the manifold phenomena of the love passion. To this end I have dealt with those phases of love and serious problems of sexual relationship which directly and indirectly concern every one of us and our posterity. The prudent in all the stages of culture have recognised that social and moral advancement and individual well-being depend upon patient and persistent investigation of human in stincts, emotions, and beliefs. To dissect every thing, view its own nature, and divide it into matter and form, was the rule laid down by Marcus Aurelius as the best provision for happiness.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.