CHAPTER I.

THE RELATION OF MARRIAGE.

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The new relation full of new meaning.--Lifted into a higher realm.--Love transforms the nature.--Marriage the estate of man's highest happiness.--The awakening of reproductive life in field and forest.--These powers may be held in abeyance.--They also have their proper exercise.--Reason to rule over passion.--The need of a strong emotional nature in men and in women.--Sexual nature should not be immolated.--Vice and lust cannot bring happiness.--The sensual usurper must be deposed and love enthroned.--This our effort and our justification, 25