Now, your dear sentimental foreign women say to our girls: 'It is wicked to marry without love; the obedience to parents in such a case is an outrage against nature and Christianity.

If you love a man you must sacrifice everything to marry him.'" When, however, love is fully developed it becomes an enormously extended, highly complex emotion, and lust, even in the best sense of that word, becomes merely a cooerdinated element among many other elements.

Herbert Spencer, in an interesting passage of his _Principles of Psychology_ (Part IV, Ch.

VIII), has analyzed love into as many as nine distinct and important elements: (1) the physical impulse of sex; (2) the feeling for beauty; (3) affection; (4) admiration and respect; (5) love of approbation; (6) self-esteem; (7) proprietary feeling; (8) extended liberty of action from the absence of personal barriers; (9) exaltation of the sympathies.

"This passion," he concludes, "fuses into one immense aggregate most of the elementary excitations of which we are capable." It is scarcely necessary to say that to define sexual love, or even to analyze its components, is by no means to explain its mystery.