im incomparably
happier than any other terrestrial possession. He can enjoy luscious
peaches, melting pears, crack horses, dollars and other things
innumerable; but a well-sexed man can enjoy woman most of all. He is
poor indeed, and takes little pleasure in this life, be his
possessions and social position what they may, who takes no pleasure
with her. All description utterly fails to express the varied and
exultant enjoyments God has engrafted into a right sexual state. Only
few experiences can attest how many and great, from infancy to death,
and throughout eternity itself. All God could do He has done to render
each sex superlatively happy in the other. Of all his beautiful and
perfect work, this is the most beautiful and perfect. Of all his
benignant devices, this is his most benign. All the divine attributes,
all human happiness, converge in male and female adaptations to mutual
enjoyments.

Each is correspondingly precious to the other. Man should prize many
things, yet woman is his pearl of greatest price. He should preserve,
cherish, husband many life possessions, but woman the most. He has
many jewels in his crown of glory, but she is his gem-jewel, his
diadem. What masculine luxury equals making women in general, and the
loved one in particular, happy?

The Source of Miseries.

Beginning and conducting courtship as this chapter directs, avoiding
the errors and following the directions it specifies, will just as
surely render all superlatively happy as sun will rise to-morrow. Scan
their sense. Do they not expound nature's love-initiating and
consummating ordinances? Are they not worthy of being put into
practice? Discordants, can you not trace many of your antagonisms and
miseries to their ignorant violation? Parents, what are they worth to
put into your children's hands, to forewarn them against carelessly,
ignorantly, spoiling their marriage? Young ladies, what are they worth
to you, as showing you how to so treat your admirers as to gain and
redouble their heart's devotion? Young men, what are these warnings
and teachings worth to you? God in his natural laws will bless all who
practice, curse all who violate them.

The conduct during engagement on the part of the gentleman should be
marked by the utmost courtesy toward and confidence in the woman of
his choice; a state of feeling which she should fully reciprocate.

In public their behavior toward one another should not be markedly
different from