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78 intensity and thorough unselfishness of this love. When this exalted affection exists, and is not degraded and destroyed by being animalized, one can be carried on the wave of this great happiness far beyond his ordinary capacities, can be made capable of that which, under ordinary circumstances, would not only be improbable, but impossible. Marriage under these proper conditions elevates, ennobles, strengthens, increases the self-confidence, and no man, no woman, can be developed to all the fullness of attainable power unless he or she enters this natural condition.

No one can question the conclusion that the sexual appetite was made to be satisfied, and there comes a time in the life of every man when in order to go onward and upward to the attainment of his highest powers, of his greatest strength, mental and physical, he must be under this perfectly natural influence. The age, of course, when this occurs differs quite widely, being governed largely by one's mental and physical