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 spring from unrequited love, — the unappeased longing and yearning for the great human right, — that is, the right to be loved for ourselves alone, not merely for the accidents that environ us.

It is a mistake to suppose that sex, and all that it implies, save only propagation, — which is confined to our physical existence, — ceases at death; for, beyond all doubt, it accompanies us beyond the grave, and it were a poor immortality if it did not. I cannot here enlarge upon this stupendous truth, but the curious reader will find that whole matter treated at length in the work entitled "After Death; or, Disembodied Man." .... I desire to call attention to three painful facts, connected with love and its hidden history, and these are: that by human disregard of the laws of love three awful curses have been entailed upon mankind, the first and worst of which is the social evil, — prostitution and its awful consequence, the various forms of the syphilitic disease, frequently transmitted to posterity, and condemning thousands of innocent people to drag it with them through life under the more respectable name of scrofula. Let us all devoutly thank God that this infernal pest bids fair to lose its hold upon mankind by reason of the splendid Alexipharmic discoveries of the peerless English student, Dr. Bowers, — all honor to his name! — whose research resulted so brilliantly in the discovery of the means of fairly crushing this hydra of the world, and who so freely sends forth his knowledge to benefit mankind. What with Bowers fighting the syphilitic dragon, and good people pitying and caring for the outcast, let us devoutly hope that these twin scourges will soon be banished from the world. The third gorgon — and equally bad in some respects, and, so far as the soul is concerned, worse one, the vice learned generally at school, and persisted in till ruin follows — must be gotten rid of by parents telling their children plainly all about the evil, and by the general physiological enlightenment of the people at large. That will do it. Doubtless there are those who read this book who will wonder wiry, in a treatise on human love, I have inserted several profound scientific treatises concerning parasites, monads, spores, fungi, and chemical matters generally. To such I answer, because the presence of such unsuspected causes may be productive of changes in the body which may, and often do, act and react upon the soul and