The Song of Songs Which Is Solomon's (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Song of Songs Which Is Solomon'sThere are people, he knows, mostly gentle, who appear to regard t relation of the sexes as improper. Nevertheless we owe a great deal it, including ourselves, and could not well do without any more than t ¿owers, which would all dry up and blow away and leave no grow and no beauty anywhere on the face of the earth. The Ancient Je were not of this cult, but were lovers, and in their loves seem to ha subserved the purpose of Nature and by that subservience to ha bequeathed a speech among themselves (which a boy tells me to-daythat love is one of the great human impulses (a form of worship, which is the greatest, fear being the other form, reverence, their union, awe, the same, fear predominating, devotion, love predominating, jealousy, love and hate, horror, fear and, the hate predominating, making sick, terror, fear predominating, making us mad, wrath, the reaction fi'orn our sense of right, when we are rage, the same, when we are wrong calflove, immature, doting, senile, h'eat, natural, lust, exaggerated prurience, repressed, concupiscence, general, infatuation, particular, prudery, dis, coquetry, simulated, etc. - self-projecting, exhaustive Passions, all of which, pretty much, your informant has suffered. Write down, love if a form of worship), perfectly and naturally depicted herein. The taste, the fashion, the fad, the fancy, of it may be changing, but the thing itself will continue to be when we no longer cast the shadow of our opinion, valueless perhaps to other times and places, as that of other times to us in Boston, upon, above, around, and over, to conceal, how vainly! Some part of it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.