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The Family of President Theodore Roosevelt: "The beauty and nobility of motherhood and the blessings of a well-ordered home filled with children reared in health and happiness are favorite themes of the President. His is a model American family."

Identifier: womaningirlhoodw00soli (find matches)
Title: ... Woman in girlhood, wifehood, motherhood; her responsibilities and her duties at all periods of life; a guide in the maintenance of her health and that of her children
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Solis-Cohen, Myer
Subjects: Women Child care
Publisher: Philadelphia, Chicago (etc.) The J.C. Winston co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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tt gives the following description: True loves the gift which God has givenTo man alone beneath the heaven:It is not fantasys hot fire, Whose wishes soon as granted fly;It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die;It is the secret sympathy,The silver link, the silken tie,Which heart to heart and mind to mindIn body and in soul can bind. The Philosophers View of Love.—Somewhat differentfrom the poets picture of love is the philosophers definition.Herbert Spencer says that love is habitually spoken of asthough it were a simple feeling, whereas it is the most com-pound, and therefore the most powerful, of all the feelings.To the physical elements forming the nucleus of the wholeare added the feelings produced by personal beauty that con-stitute simple attachments. With these there is united thecomplex sentiment termed affection, which is here greatlyexalted. Then there is the sentiment of admiration, respectand reverence, which in this relation becomes in a high de-
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MARRIAGE AND COURTSHIP 1S1 gree active. There comes next the feeling called the love ofapprobation, which is gratified in a degree passing everyother experience by being preferred above all the world andthat by the one admired above all others. There also isadded that indirect gratification which results from the pref-erence being witnessed by others. Further, the allied emo-tion of self-esteem comes into play, being agreeably excitedby the proof of power at having succeeded in gaining suchattachment from and sway over another. There is also thepleasure of possession, the two belonging to each other. Inaddition the relation allows of an extended liberty of actionand of an exaltation of sympathies which doubles ones ownpleasures and adds to them the pleasures of another. Theseall greatly exalted unite to form the mental state we call love. PASSION VERSUS AFFECTION. Love as a Passion is Transient.—It is universally recog-nized that love considered merely as a passion usually hasbut a

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