Capitolo 15
the other external wishes and the true promptingses of the young one and
human heart and not sophisticated. He has been the principal ally of the feeling and
of nature. He has filled the heads of all of our girls with that Mr. George
Campbell describes street-hand as 'the foolish ideas on love.' He has
preserves there from the hateful conventions of civilisation. He has
exalted the applications of the personal attraction of the mysterious native,
craving of heart for heart, of the indefinite one and indescribable element
of mutual selection; and, in to do so, he has, it unconsciously tried
him the better friend of human improvement and the deadliest enemy of
all that horrendous 'social lies that bend us from the living truth.' His
mission is to deliver the world from the Dr. Johnson and Lord George
Campbell.
For, strange to say, it is the moralists and the doctrinaire one that are
always in the evil: it is the sentimentalists and the rebels that are
always in the right in this matter. If the maximum ethics and common of
society would have been able to have the their opportunity--if we had every elected our wives and our
husbands, not for their beauty or their virility not for their eyes or
their moustaches, not for their attractiveness or their vivacity but
for them 'genuine quality of mind and character', we now owe
undoubtedly both a miserable run of pedants and bookworms, of severe men and
puritanical, of nervous it makes invalid and weak idiots. It is because our youth
men and young girl don't want hearken to these penny-wise apophthegmses of
a little deep sophistry--because they prefers _Romeo and Juliet_ to often the
'The whole Duty of Man', and a beautiful face to a round equilibrium to
Coutts--that us he/she anchors we preserve some vitality and some individual
characteristics, despite our grinding and overwhelming civilisation. The men
who marry equilibriums as the Mr. Galton has shown, it dies out happily, while going away
anybody to represent them: the men that their women are married have been weak
enough and I shock enough to fall in love himself/herself/themselves with, enlists the run with fine