as persistent as Death. “Whither thou goest, I will go: and thy people
shall be my people.” ¶ The divine attraction which brings the right man
and the right woman together must be trusted as strong and sufficient
enough to hold them. When you treat them as rats baited into a trap,
from which escape is impossible, you dissolve the main idea and interpose
the thought of escape. ¶ And this is what makes so many married men and
women stray in their sleep and tread the border-land of folly. I would
hold my mate by the supreme integrity of my love for her, and by no other
bond. And this once fixed in the minds of men and women would make for
constancy. ¶ Nothing is more terrible in life than to break and sunder
human relations ❦ To be true to your own is the natural thing, because
it is the right thing. It is the only policy that pays. Happiness lies
in loyalty. This applies to any field of human endeavor. The race knows
it now for the first time in history. Truth is the new virtue, and Truth
is a virtue because it reduces the perplexities of life and brings
good results. ¶ The love of man for woman and of woman for man, and of
both for their children, is a divine instinct ❦ When you bolster and
brace it by political blacksmiths and shuddering shysters, you doubt
its constancy, and, what is worse, you suggest the doubt to the very
people you seek to fetter ❦ The greatest line ever written by Humboldt
was this: “The Universe is governed by Law.” But he did not refer to the
laws of man ❦ He referred to the laws of Nature, or, if you please, the
laws of God, although Humboldt in his latter years never used the word
“God.” I believe in the blessed trinity of Man, Woman and Child. These
to me express Divinity. Left alone the woman would be the companion,
friend and helpmeet of the man, not his slave, pet, plaything, drudge,
doormat and scullion. ¶ Happiness lies in equality. The effort you put
forth to win the woman, you should be compelled to exercise through life
in order to hold her. And you will hold her by so long as Love kisses
the lips of Death, and the dimpled hands of the babe encircle the neck
of its father ❦ The house of the harlot exists because love is gyved,
fettered, blindfolded and sold in the marketplaces. There is nothing
so pulls on the heartstrings of the normal, healthy man as the love
for wife and child ❦ Always and forever he wears them in his heart of
hearts. To imagine that he would forsake them for the husks of license,
unless looked after by Jaggers and Jaggers, is to doubt the Wisdom of
the Creator. In our hearts Divine Wisdom implanted the seeds of loyalty
and right. These are a part of the great plan of self-preservation. We
do not walk off the cliff, because we realize that to do so would mean
death. ¶ Make men and women free, and they will travel by the Eternal
Guiding Stars. That which makes for self-respect in men and women,
putting each on his good behavior, increasing the sum of good-will and
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