passion, for which the faculty
indeed is unborn. In its nobler form and in its nobler motives it arises
from love, and in its lower form it arises from the deepest and darkest Pit
of Satan.

2. HOW DEVELOPED.--Jealousy arises either from weakness, which from a sense
of its own want of lovable qualities is not convinced of being sure of its
cause, or from distrust, which thinks the beloved person capable of
infidelity. Sometimes all these motives may act together.

3. NOBLEST JEALOUSY.--The noblest jealousy, if the term noble is
appropriate, is a sort of ambition or pride of the loving person who feels
it is an insult that another one should assume it as possible to supplant
his love, or it is the highest degree of devotion which sees a declaration
of its object in the foreign invasion, as it were, of his own altar.
Jealousy is always a sign that a little more wisdom might adorn the
individual without harm.

4. THE LOWEST JEALOUSY.--The lowest species of jealousy is a sort of
avarice of envy which, without being capable of love, at least wishes to
possess the object of its jealousy alone by the one party assuming a sort
of property right over the other. This jealousy, which might be called the
Satanic, is generally to be found with old withered "husbands," whom the
devil has prompted to marry young women and who forthwith dream night and
day of cuck-old's horns. These Argus-eyed keepers are no longer capable of
any feeling that could be called love, they are rather as a rule heartless
house-tyrants, and are in constant dread that some one may admire or
appreciate his unfortunate slave.

5. WANT OF LOVE.--The general conclusion will be that jealousy is more the
result of wrong conditions which cause uncongenial unions, and which
through moral corruption, artificially create distrust, than a necessary
accompaniment of love.

[Illustration: SEEKING THE LIFE OF A RIVAL.]

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6. RESULT OF POOR OPINION.--Jealousy is a passion with which those are most
afflicted who are the least worthy of love. An innocent maiden who enters
marriage will not dream of getting jealous; but all her innocence cannot
secure her against the jealousy of her husband if he has been a libertine.
Those are wont to be the most jealous who have the consciousness that they
themselves are most deserving of jealousy. Most men in consequence of their
present education and corruption have so poor an opinion not only of the
male, but even of the fema