Often to-day the betrothed young couple will speak openly and beautifully of the children they hope to have, while others equally full of the creative dream feel it too tender a subject to put into words, and may marry without ever having given expression to the possibility that they will generate through their love yet other lovers. CHAPTER II Conceived in Beauty ... Here in close recess With flowers, garlands and sweet smelling herbs, Espousèd Eve deck’d first her nuptial bed, And heav’nly choirs the Hymenæan sung, What day the genial angel to our sire Brought her in naked beauty more adorn’d, More lovely than Pandora, whom the Gods Endow’d with all their gifts.... ... Into their inmost bower Handed they went; and, eased the putting off Those troublesome disguises which we wear, Straight side by side were laid; nor turn’d, I ween, Adam from his fair spouse; nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused: * * * * * These, lull’d by nightingales, embracing slept, And on their naked limbs the flowery roof Shower’d roses, which the morn repaired. Sleep on, Blest pair, and O! yet happiest if ye seek No happier state, and know to know no more. MILTON: _Paradise Lost_. In ancient Sanskrit, there is a work dealing minutely with love and with the different forms its expression takes in different types of people. This has been modified, added to and re-written by many later authors, and under various names works based on this are to be found in Sanskrit and translated into various Indian dialects. In these volumes much that is curious, and to Western nations, absurd, is to be found, but also several profound observations which appear to be based on truths generally ignored by us. One of the interesting themes of these very early writers is a recognition and a description of the characteristics of the best and most perfect type of woman, the “Padmini.” In addition to describing fully her physical appearance and characteristics, it is observed that she being a child of light and not of darkness, prefers the supreme act of love to take place in the daylight rather than the dark.