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 vidual application. Scarcely out of the cradle, she responds readily to all caresses and manifestations of affection. The boy, on the contrary, seems endowed with a sort of brutal- ity. His affections and tendencies develop only with his growth and in proportion as the necessities of his life exact them.

All the passions of woman relate in the last analysis to her maternal role. So, as we have elsewhere asserted, she manifests the mother almost in her infancy. Her instincts unceasingly attract her in this direction. To fulfill so important a function it was absolutely necessary that she should be provided with instinctive tendencies, and that her will should be dominated by the mysterious power of a heart full of obedience and faith in her mission. Intelligence and reason alone are not sufficient for the development of humanity ; the loving element of woman only can impart those treasures of faith, hope, and charity which are so essential to its nourishment.

It is claimed by theologians that the immortality of the soul is proved by the fact that of the whole animal creation, man is the only being who does not attain the limits of his aspirations while on earth. It is certain, however, that in nothing is he able to approach so nearly the realization of his fondest hopes as in love. When consecrated by a happy marriage he finds in this heavenly attribute the nearest approach to Paradise — the invisible bond which attaches him most closely to Divinity. We of course refer, in this connection, to that love which comprises domestic happiness in its largest sense. Mere sexual desire — the gratification of his carnal appetites — soon takes its proper rank as one of the least elements of married felicity. We should scarcely be believed were we to state how infrequent in the very happiest unions, are the repetitions of the gene-