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Paolo Mantegazza. The Book of Love
The Book of Love
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
TO THE READER
INTRODUCTION GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY OF LOVE
CHAPTER I LOVE IN PLANTS AND ANIMALS
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CHAPTER II MORNING CREPUSCULES OF LOVE—THE GOOD AND EVIL SOURCES OF LOVE
CHAPTER III THE FIRST WEAPONS OF LOVE—COURTSHIP
CHAPTER IV MODESTY
CHAPTER V THE VIRGIN
CHAPTER VI CONQUEST AND VOLUPTUOUSNESS
CHAPTER VII HOW LOVE IS PRESERVED AND HOW IT DIES
CHAPTER VIII THE DEPTHS AND THE HEIGHTS OF LOVE
CHAPTER IX SUBLIME PUERILITIES OF LOVE
CHAPTER X BOUNDARIES OF LOVE, AND THEIR RELATIONS TO THE SENSES
CHAPTER XI BOUNDARIES OF LOVE—THEIR RELATIONS TO OTHER SENTIMENTS—JEALOUSY
CHAPTER XII BOUNDARIES OF LOVE—THEIR RELATIONS TO THOUGHT
CHAPTER XIII CHASTITY IN ITS RELATIONS TO LOVE
CHAPTER XIV LOVE IN SEX
CHAPTER XV LOVE AND AGE
CHAPTER XVI LOVE IN RELATION TO TEMPERAMENTS—OF THE WAYS OF LOVING
CHAPTER XVII THE HELL OF LOVE
CHAPTER XVIII THE DEGRADATIONS OF LOVE
CHAPTER XIX FAULTS AND CRIMES OF LOVE
CHAPTER XX RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF LOVE
CHAPTER XXI THE COVENANTS OF LOVE
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Paolo Mantegazza
Published by Good Press, 2019
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And is not love perhaps the combination of two dissimilar atoms which seek each other and combine, notwithstanding all the adverse forces of heaven and earth? And in the same manner as the molecule of potassium snatches the oxygen away from water with a great development of light and heat, is not the union of those two molecules, which we call man and woman, accompanied by a hurricane of passion, by flashes of genius, by infinite glittering of flames and ardor? Do we not perceive a pandemonium of physical and psychical forces accumulating, battling and equilibrating around that point where a man and a woman are attracted toward each other, to rejuvenate the human matter and rekindle the torch of life?
A particular motion, originated in the ovary and in the testis, accumulates such energy in the nervous centers as eventually to bring the masculine element in contact with the feminine, so that the generative gemmulæ produced in the slow laboratory of two different organisms reunite in that nest which is the maternal womb and where the fecundated egg must transform into a human being.
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