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Rh circumstances, will often fight with the frenzy of a man-eating tiger when its young are to be protected. Therefore, why belittle animal love? In its noblest form it is one of the grandest of all human passions or human instincts.

Admitting that marriage is fundamentally a physical institution, that whatever the exalted height of the regard existing between the contracting parties, it is made possible first by physical attraction, then call to mind the average physical condition of those who have entered, and are still entering, the holy bonds of matrimony. When such facts are viewed, the great wonder is not why there are so few, but why there are so many happy marriages under such abnormal conditions. Although the men are far from the physical standard that they should approximate, the principal fault is to be found in the female sex, for as far as the marital relations are concerned, it is the woman who should have control, and should be blessed with that