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Some Day Science May Have The Existence Of Mankind In Its Power, And The Human Race Commit Suicide, By Blowing Up The World.

Probably The Institution Of Marriage Had Its Origin In Love Of Property. Both Men And Women Were United In This--that Whatever They Loved Best, They Wished To Possess. The Usual Theory Holds That The Communal System Would Not Permit The Gratification Of This Desire At The Expense Of Communal Rights, And That Therefore Men Were Driven To Gratify Their Passion By Purchasing Or By Capturing Women From Neighboring And Hostile Tribes.

We Combat Obstacles In Order To Get Repose, And When Got, The Repose Is Insupportable.

It [love] Is A Disease To Be Born With Patience, Like Any Nervous Complaint, And To Be Treated With Counter-irritants.

Even Theologians, Even The Great Theologians Of The Thirteenth Century, Even Saint Thomas Aquinas Himself Did Not Trust To Faith Alone, Or Assume The Existence Of God.