105

As we can see exemplified in the case of Othello and Desdemona,
etc. 107

The kind and not the degree of the love is what gives love its
special value 108

And the selection of this kind can be neither made nor justified
on positive principles 109

As the following quotations from Theophile Gautier will show us 110

Which are supposed by many to embody the true view of love 110

According to this view, purity is simply a disease both in man
and woman, or at any rate no merit 116

If love is to be a moral end, this view must be absolutely
condemned 117

But positivism cannot condemn it, or support the opposite view 117

As we shall see by recurring to Professor Huxley's argument 118

Which will show us that all moral language as applied to love is
either distinctly religious or else altogether ludicrous 122

For it is clearly only on moral grounds that we can give that
blame to vice, which is the measure of the praise we give to
virtue 123

The misery of the former depends on religious anticipations 124

And so does also the blessedness of the latter 125

As we can see in numerous literary expressions of it 126

Positivism, by destroying these anticipations, changes the whole
character of the love in question 128

And prevents love from supplying us with any moral standard 131

The loss sustained by love will indicate the general loss
sustained by life 131

CHAPTER VI.

LIFE AS ITS OWN REWARD.

We must now examine what will be the practical result on life
in general of the loss just indicated 132

To do this, we will take life as reflected in the mirror of the
great dramatic art of the world 134

And this will show us how the moral judgment is the chief faculty
to which all that is great or intense in this art appeals 136

We shall see this, for instance, in _Macbeth_