ferred which, with such a change in
social organization, will amount to bigamy; but here everything will
be done openly and by mutual agreement. In such cases any one who
cannot overcome jealousy will be divorced.

If, in spite of everything, a marriage is not happy, owing to
incompatibility of character, the marriage (or sexual contract) will
be dissolved, after legal provision for the children and their
education. After this each of the conjoints will be free to marry
again. This last contingency will probably not be more frequent than
it is as present, possibly less, especially when there are children,
for divorce is always painful when there are children to be brought
up.

Work, and the effort of striving toward the ideal of social life, are
the best and most healthy distractions for the sexual appetite. It is
the idleness, luxury and corruption of large cities which cause it to
degenerate. Moreover, work revives love and leaves little time for
family disputes.

With a little independence of character, and abandonment of old
prejudices, we can even now realize our scheme to a great extent.

=The Art of Loving Long.=--The ideal true love often only shows itself
after the first amorous intoxication has subsided. In order to remain
harmonious, love requires above all things the higher psychic
irradiation of intimate sympathetic sentiments associated with the
sexual appetite, with which they should always remain intimately
connected, or at any rate as long as the duration of the active sexual
life of man. Later on, in the evening of life, the first are
sufficient.

The great error into which most men fall who marry is to rely on the
civil and religious bonds of matrimony. As soon as the union is
sealed, they return to their usual habits and mode of life. Each
expects much from the other and gives as little as possible. When
amorous sexual intoxication is over, the husband no longer finds any
charm in his wife, he becomes enamored of other women to whom he
devotes his attention, reserving his bad temper for his wife, while
the latter takes no more trouble to please him.

I agree that a man cannot for long conceal his true nature; we are
what we are by heredity. Nevertheless, the art of being amiable may be
acquired by habit and education, an art which the poorest may employ.
Education should never cease during life. Along with the higher
sentiments of love and mutual respect, lasting sexual attraction is a
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