But to Othello this would be no comfort.

The fountain would be polluted '_from which his current runs_'; and though its waters might still flow for him, he would not care to touch them.

If this feeling is manifest in such a love as Othello's, much more is it manifest in love of a higher type.

It is expressed thus, for instance, by the heroine of Mrs.
Craven's '_Recit d'une Soeur_.' '_I can indeed say_,' she says, '_that we never loved each other so much as when we saw how we both loved God:_' and again, '_My husband would not have loved me as he did, if he had not loved God a great deal more._' This language is of course distinctly religious; but it embodies a meaning that is appreciated by the positive school as well.

In positivist language it might be expressed thus: '_My husband would not have loved me as he did, if he would not, sooner than love me in any other way, have ceased to love me altogether._' It is clear that this sentiment is proper, nay essential, to positivist affection, just as well as to Christian.