Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...look upon you as a pathological case; I looked upon you as a problem; and with wholesome curiosity I asked: "How does it feel, Philemon, to be in love?" And you answered that r to you it seemed as though you were occupying the centre of an emanation, which thrilled and billowed on every side of you; and you said: "It is love." "Your diagnosis is doubtless correct," I told you, "and you are indeed in love. But all is well. The danger is negligible. For there is a difference (it is vast and wide and profound) between being in love--and loving The Woman. You, as you have so well described it, are the centre of radiant and forthgoing emanations. You have defined precisely the state of being in love. "But, Philemon," I went on, "it is not the same thing (for it is exactly the opposite thing) to love The Woman. Then, Philemon, the thousand and one fierce and exultant consciousnesses which make up your ego will march all together, like a crowd to a festival, like an army to the frontier; and they will march toward Her and toward Her alone. That is what it is to love The Woman--She who is ipsissima--She whose tense individuality of vibration is for you so compelling that there is no other point of attraction in all the universe. That way danger lies. But at present, I take it, you are safe. You are merely in love." Do you remember that evening? And the verses you read me? I have forgotten the verses, but I remember the advice I gave you. I continued: "Being in love, Philemon, never hurt anyone. It even gives one a kind of exaltation, which young men--who are not so highly developed as you are--often mistake for genius; whence the rhymes of youth. (Nightingales in love are canorous; with...
