[126] Here we may allude to a remark in the diary of the de Goncourts that there is nothing to compare to the delicate voluptuous charm of old cashmere as a dress-fabric for women (E. and J. de Goncourt, “Diary,” 1851-1895). [127] H. Pudor, “Nackt-Kultur,” vol. ii., pp. 4-6. [128] Ernst Kapp, “Elements of a Philosophy of Technique,” pp. 269, 270 (Brunswick, 1877). [129] W. Sombart, “Domestic Economy and Fashion” (Wiesbaden, 1902). [130] G. Simmel, “The Psychology of Fashion,” published in _Die Zeit_, October 12, 1895; “The Philosophy of Fashion” (Berlin, 1906). [131] W. Fred, “The Psychology of Fashion” (Berlin, 1905). [132] Simmel rightly points out that many women would feel very uncomfortable if they had to appear in their private sitting-room, or before a single strange man, in a dress so _décolleté_ as that in which they readily appear, in society and following the fashion, before thirty or a hundred. [133] What serious dangers to health prudery may entail has recently been shown by Karl Ries in a valuable essay, “Prudery as the Cause of Bodily Disorders” (published in the Reports of the German Society for the Suppression of Venereal Diseases, 1906, vol. iv., pp. 113-121). CHAPTER VIII THE WAY OF THE SPIRIT IN LOVE--THE INDIVIDUALIZATION OF LOVE “_Above all, we must avoid the widely diffused error of regarding love as a simple and single feeling. The exact opposite is the truth--love consists of an entire group, and, indeed, of an extremely complex, incessantly varying, group of feelings._”--H. T. FINCK. CONTENTS OF CHAPTER VIII