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The Choice of Parents 59
above, the decisive factor in the prophesied
downfall of love.
According to my conception of the word,
it is love on the contrary, which will win the
victory by the relative weakening of impulse,
and by scientific analysis of the same. Men
will no longer mistake impulse for love. Of
course this impulse is always present in love,
but in the same way in which the sculpture
of the cave man is present in the work of
Michael Angelo. Man will then, with all
the powers of his being, be able to love, when
love, according to the happy expression of
Thoreau, is not a glow, but a light. Then
he will see for the first time, what wealth
life can have through love, when love be-
comes a happiness worthy of man because it
becomes an aesthetic creation, a religious
worship; when the completed unity of those
who love is expressed in a new being,—a be-
ing that will some day be really grateful for
the life it has received. Where the amelio-
ration of the human race is concerned, the
transformation of customs and feelings is
always the essential thing. Influence of
legislation in comparison with it is ever
slight. But as has been said before, legis-
lation has its role to play. Especially where
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