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the experience of its psychological and ethical
value.
It is not through a series of lightly entered
into and lightly dissolved connections that one
is prepared for the happiness of great love.
Voluntary fidelity is a sign of nobility,
because it assumes the will to concentrate about
the centre of life’s meaning; because it
signifies the unity with our own proper
inner-most ego. This is as true of fidelity in love
as of all other kinds of fidelity. Only when
love is the practical religion of the work-day,
and the devotion of the holiday, when it is
kept under the constant supervision of the
soul, when it brings with it a constant growth,
why should not the fine old word “sanctification”
be used) of personality, is love great.
Then it comes into possession of a higher
right than some earlier union, because it then
means really fidelity and nothing else
towards our own highest ego. But where it
does not have this character, it does not
possess this right. It is then a petty emotion
even when it is made pardonable by great
passion. The children which issue from
temporary unions are often as imperfect as their
origin. Great love is, as a young doctor once
said, only that which grips so deeply, that
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