generate, even in its most loyal forms.
The social work in common of a man and woman united by true affection,
full of tenderness and devotion for one another, mutually encouraging
each other to perseverance and to action, will easily triumph over
petty jealousies and all other instinctive reactions of the
phylogenetic exclusiveness of natural love. The sentiments of love
will thus become ever more ideal, and will no longer provide egoism
with the soil of idleness and comfort on which it grows like a weed.

=Inconvenience of Abstinence from Sexual Connection Between Married
Couples by Medical Orders.=--It is a matter of common observation that
in marriage, at least during mature life, sexual connection
strengthens and maintains love, even when it only constitutes part of
that which cements tenderness and affection. In many cases I have
observed that medical orders, given no doubt with good intentions, and
forbidding sexual connection, on account of certain morbid conditions,
have had the effect of cooling the sentiments of love and sympathy and
producing indifference which soon becomes incurable. Physicians should
always bear this in mind in their prescriptions, of which they too
often see the immediate object only. The medical prohibition of sexual
connection in marriage should be reserved for cases of absolute
necessity. For example: A virtuous and capable man marries for love an
intelligent but somewhat ill-developed girl. The marriage is happy and
they have several children. But after a time certain local disorders
in the woman induce the medical man to forbid sexual connection with
her husband. They begin to sleep in separate rooms, and little by
little intimate love becomes so far cooled that the renewal of sexual
relations later on becomes impossible. The husband's sentiments are so
much affected as to render him unfaithful to his moral principles,
and to lead him occasionally to visit prostitutes. Although they have
become essentially strangers to each other, the husband and wife
continue to live together an apparently happy life; but this is far
from always the case.

=Durable Love.=--It may be stated as a principle that true and
elevated love is durable, and that the sudden passion which lets loose
the sexual appetite toward an individual of the opposite sex, hitherto
a stranger, in no way represents the measure of true love. Passion
warps the judgment, conceals the most evident faults, colors
everything in