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after its loss one no longer feels as a whole,
but as a half of a whole. Yet nature has
protected itself against annihilation by giving
the possibility of love more than once. But
what nature’s ideal is cannot be doubted. The
race which would come into existence, provided
young men and women were given the
possibility of uniting when the first love took
possession of them,—that love which is the
deepest,—this race would be sound and strong,
different from what our own race is now.
But when young people love now they seldom
have the means for union, and when they have
the means, then that which leads them to the
marriage union is not the deepest feeling they
have ever felt, but only an impulse, which,
even if real, is still only a substitute.
Such a transformation of the conditions of
society and of the individual view of the true
worth of life will enable young men and women,
between the ages of twenty and thirty, to
found their own home and under simple conditions,
to secure their happiness. Here would
be one of the most essential foundations for
the origin of a new race, which would have
the ancient feeling for the hearth as an altar,
and would have the life of love as the service
of a divinity. Only through such a
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