Chapters On Human Love

Excerpt from Chapters on Human Love These pages treat upon human love and the union of the sexes in their evolutionary, historic, and physiological aspects. I do not by any means profess that this is a fully comprehensive treatise on this stupendous subject but I have endeavoured to collate and classify within the scope of this volume a great number of facts concerning love in mankind in the past ages and in the present time. It has been my aim to elucidate part of the mystery, and to correct certain misapprehensions regarding the manifold phenomena of the love passion. To this end I have dealt with those phases of love and serious problems of sexual relationship which directly and indirectly concern every one of us and our posterity. The prudent in all the stages of culture have recognised that social and moral advancement and individual well-being depend upon patient and persistent investigation of human in stincts, emotions, and beliefs. To dissect every thing, view its own nature, and divide it into matter and form, was the rule laid down by Marcus Aurelius as the best provision for happiness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Excerpt from Chapters on Human Love These pages treat upon human love and the union of the sexes in their evolutionary, historic, and physiological aspects. I do not by any means profess that this is a fully comprehensive treatise on this stupendous subject; but I have endeavoured to collate and classify within the scope of this volume a great number of facts concerning love in mankind in the past ages and in the present time. It has been my aim to elucidate part of the mystery, and to correct certain misapprehensions regarding the manifold phenomena of the love passion. To this end I have dealt with those phases of love and serious problems of sexual relationships which directly and indirectly concern every one of us and our posterity. The prudent in all the stages of culture have recognised that social and moral advancement and individual well-being depend upon patient and persistent investigation of human instincts, emotions, and beliefs. "To dissect everything, view its own nature, and divide it into matter and form," was the rule laid down by Marcus Aurelius as the best provision for happiness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

This is a much-needed update on the latest theory and research on love supplied by leading scientific experts. It is suitable for psychologists, neuroscientists, anthropologists, sociologists, and anyone with an interest in love and what has been learned from scientific studies of it.

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The common denominator of Chapter On Love is the characters' analytical furore and the yarns they spin is love, which touches not only on the human being, but the whole of nature, from the realm of plants to that of minerals.

Yet many who sit next to us in the pew at church fit that description, says author Wesley Hill. As a celibate gay Christian, Hill gives us a glimpse of what it looks like to wrestle firsthand with God's ''No'' to same-sex relationships. What does it mean for gay Christians to live faithful to God while struggling with the challenge of their homosexuality? What is God's will for believers who experience same-sex desires? Those who choose celibacy are often left to deal with loneliness and the hunger for relationships. How can gay Christians experience God's favor and blessing in the midst of a struggle that for many brings a crippling sense of shame and guilt? Weaving together reflections from his own life and the lives of other Christians, such as Henri Nouwen and Gerard Manley Hopkins, Hill offers a fresh perspective on these questions. He advocates neither unqualified ''healing'' for those who struggle, nor their accommodation to temptation, but rather faithfulness in the midst of brokenness. ''I hope this book may encourage other homosexual Christians to take the risky step of opening up their lives to others in the body of Christ,'' Hill writes. ''In so doing, they may find, as I have, by grace, that being known is spiritually healthier than remaining behind closed doors, that the light is better than the darkness.