Whenever I see a flower that opens and shows its cheerful petals1 on the border of an abyss, the same thought ever recurs2 to my mind: there is love, which always seems to live between two infinities3, height and depth. While its aspirations4 carry it aloft, while it seems to ask of heaven space and light, it projects its roots into the most intricate mazes5 of the rocks, into the most somber6 mysteries of the abyss. Star that glitters in the infinity7 of the ideal, root that dissolves the stones in the infinity of depth, it reaches all altitudes and all profundities8, is the most human of passions and always placed among the divine passions; it is inmost in us and the most ethereal. Thought on the summit of a mountain, strength in the valley below, it guides the poet when he ascends10 to paradise, accompanies man when he plunges11 into the hot sea of sensuality; virgin12 and father in heaven, lover and spouse13 on earth. If to live means to exist in the most beautiful form of life, then love is richness, luxury, splendor14 of life; love is whatever is divine in human beings.
No one will ever be able to say where love penetrates15 when it lifts the bottom of human nature, where pearls and corals are intermixed with mud. It is a diver that brings to light strange and unknown things and reveals to the astonished eye of the observer new things never before conceived; it is the most daring and the most fortunate of excavators. How many simple natures of young girls, how many vulgar talents of men are perturbed16, agitated17 and renovated18 by the contact of the new god, who seems to evoke19 from the abysses all silent passions, all dormant20 ideas, all the phantoms21 of[Pg 108] heart and thought! The deep simmering of psychical22 elements at the contact with love almost always announces the birth of a second moral nature and, revivifying life, marks a new era in it. Of our birth we are always ignorant, and of our death almost always unconscious; between the "to be" and the "not to be" only one third and great thing is possible—"to love." While the common people judge from the hair on the face and from the deepened voice that a boy has become a man, a tremendous profound earthquake warns him that he must love, that he already loves; and while mothers behold23 with affectionate trepidation24 the rounding of their daughters' form to womanhood, another profound earthquake warns the girl that she must love, that she already loves.
In the loving season many animals change color and shape, adorn25 themselves with new feathers, or arm themselves with new weapons; with the nuptial26 robe they assume different habits and singular abilities; mutes, they become clever singers; obtuse27, they are transformed into skilled architects; granivorous, they become carnivorous; if the earth is their habitat, they become winged messengers of the skies; if caterpillars28, they are metamorphosed into butterflies. So it is with man, although such transmutation hardly affects his epidermis29, but sinks into the veins30 and the meanders31 of his physical nature. The phase of puberty deserves to be dealt with separately; it will suffice here to remark that every force redoubles, every vigor32 refines, and while, with our growing to manhood, forces and energies prepare and grow, love calls forces and energies into action. Puberty declares us in a state of war; love calls us to the battle. Defenseless if we have not reached puberty, we are armed if we have reached it; armed and combative33 if we have reached it and are in love.
Not all human forces are good, not all the resources of mind are beneficial to the good, and, therefore, love calls into action bad elements as well, which had not been seen before. For the first time, from the deep abysses of the moral man, specters of crime and vice34, phantoms of revelry[Pg 109] and prison appear. In defective35 organisms, predestined for the prison or the madhouse, together with first love often the first crime or the first mania36 reveals itself. To the great summoner of profundity37 and sublimity38 every human element answers, "Present"; and the sudden anger in natures erstwhile mild, the first tears on faces till then smiling, the first poetic39 outburst in natures hitherto utterly40 prosaic41, the first hysterical42 paroxysms in a body that seemed to have no nerves, the first ambitions in the most timid youth, the first meditations43 at the mirror, the first impulses, the first war declared against an invisible enemy, the first follies44, the first flashes of genius, the first lies and the first heroisms, are all new specters called from the abysses by the magic wand of the sorcerer among sorcerers, by the greatest conjurer of spirits that the blessed age of wizards and exorcisms might have boasted of.
The man who loves is twice a man, because for the first time he feels not only that he is alive, but also that he has the power of creating living beings, of procreating. Nor is woman the sole generator45, because in man's blood is half of a future creature, and the seed of a second existence within us doubles us and makes us almost as proud as the ancient prophets, to whom God entrusted46, as to a tabernacle, the supreme47 truth, the prophecy of future events. A man who loves has within him a part of that which will live in the future, the fruitful germs of a new generation.
While all the psychical forces are still confused and indistinct at first contact with the new sentiment, Love will march them in procession and muster48 them under his orders. Every beauty must transmute49 itself into flowers for a garland, every passion must lend its fire, every energy must don the livery of a servant or a slave. Many to serve, one to command; many strong, but only one supremely50 strong; many subjects, but only one tyrant51. No objection, no discussion; where love is present, who would give suggestions or counsel? O virgin and rising forces of youth, bow your head before your god; splendid beauties of human nature, lay your tributes upon the new altars. Are you not satisfied[Pg 110] with the glory of doing homage52 to love? Rarely does avarice53 find place in the first and deep meditations of a heart in love, but the question is continually repeated: "Have I something else, something better, to offer? Have I really given my whole self to my king?"
A most singular and heartrending voluptuousness55 of love is to feel that everything leaves us and that we no longer belong to ourselves. It seems as though we were witnessing a satanic phantasmagoria in which we behold limbs, organs, senses, affections, thoughts fleeing from us, running madly toward a new center, where a new organism is being moulded with our remains56. Even time appears to be ours no longer, since it is no longer measured by the watch, but by the impatience57 of desire or the flashes of voluptuousness; thought, too, no longer belongs to us, as it is tyrannically ruled by one image alone. To find ourselves again, to remember that we have still intimate relations with the man of yesterday, we must go and seek another creature who has robbed us of everything. Hence a vague unrest which invades the body, the senses and the thoughts of every lover; hence the undertaking58, most difficult even for the ablest dissembler, to conceal59 the new god who invades and penetrates every part of us. Every hair, every pore, every nerve, every part of the epidermis of the man who loves sings and says to the universe of the living: "I love, and who loves me?" Day and night, in the calm and in the storm, all the nature of a lover sings its note until another song responds in the same tone. Not a moment of peace, not an instant of truce60, until the new energy has found a sister energy. Love is like the sea: here it is as calm as the surface of an Alpine61 lake, still and smooth as a sheet of lead; but there, among the rocks or upon the coast, it is eternally in motion, and, roaring or sighing, howling or caressing62, agitates63 with incessant64 motion the land it kisses. Man and woman who meet and love are the sea and the land, which are perpetually at war—a war in turn sweet and bitter, tender and cruel, voluptuous54 and merciless.
Look at that young girl seated at the window, bending[Pg 111] over a piece of white linen65 which she is sewing. How attentive66 she is to her work! She seems, between one stitch and another, to be meditating67 on the solution of the quadrature of the circle, so absorbed is she in her arduous68 task. But if I only could write the volume of thoughts that pass through her brain between two stitches! She is fishing in the deep abysses of love.
And at a short distance thence, she unaware69 of it, a young man, too, is at the window, his hair disheveled, his hands firmly thrust into his pockets, his breast swelling70 as by a threat. He has been staring at the sky for the last hour. Is he meditating, perhaps, upon the tremendous problem of the proletariate or on that of human liberty? Is he, perhaps, dreaming of glory, of wealth? No; he, too, is fishing in the deep abysses of love.
Woman more than man dives deeper and soars higher in the regions of love; society generally withholds71 her from the field of action, and an infinite time is left to her for penetrating72 into the abysses of the heart. How often an innocent young girl, who, perhaps, hardly knows how to write, for many long hours feels in her imagination the sweetness of a kiss which lasted but a second; how often she is tortured during a whole night by the bitterness of a cold salute73 or of a rude word! Here is a deepness of sense which, nevertheless, is nothing in comparison with the queer and transubstantial process of sentimental74 analysis with which woman pulverizes75, analyzes76, distills a look, a word, a gesture. Hide, O chemists, your ignorance before the profundity of the analytical77 art of an enamored woman; to her the spectroscope is a coarse instrument of prehistoric78 science; hom?opathic draughts79 are poisons; atoms are worlds; she has measured them many centuries before Thomson. A billionth part of a milligram of rancor80 diluted81 in an ocean of voluptuousness is detected by her process of analysis; an atom of indifference82 in the lava83 of desire is instantaneously traced by the thermo-electric apparatus84 which she uses in her laboratory. She is a priestess of the ideal, of the infinite, of the incommensurable, and will continue to be religious many[Pg 112] centuries after man will have buried the last god. Even in love, the infinite is insufficient85 for her.
Love always elevates the lover above the average man; and as his increased strength makes him capable of greater undertakings86, the horizon widens before him more and more because he sees men and things from a greater height. Each one of us has a different capacity of soaring to the regions of the ideal; but rabble87 and genius, prose and poetry, always raise themselves, by the action of love, to a world which is nobler, more beautiful, more serene88 than that in which we drag out our daily uneventful existence. How many vulgar, despicable natures are redeemed89 by the action of love; how many inert90 intellects are guided through the paths to glory; how many of the vulgar herd91 reach the height of the Olympus of thoughts with the aid of a loving hand! And still the ignoble92 proverb is daily repeated, that science and glory must guard against love as against a bitter enemy, and the examples are pedantically93 quoted of great men who loved but art and to chastity alone owed their greatness. Strange disorder94 of ideas, in which hygiene95 is confused with morality, chastity with the incapacity of loving; but a man healthy in sense and sentiment will always be elevated by love, if he does not make an unworthy creature the object of his affection, if he does not confound love with lust96. For one genius killed by love, you have a hundred who owe to love their greatest inspirations, who drew from it the strength to live, who blessed it as superior to glory, who in it alone found the fresh wave that tempered the burning ardor97 of enthusiasm and passion. It is an old habit of the human beast to trample98 under its feet the rind of the fruit from which it has just sucked the last drop of juice!
If love does not work in all creatures the same miracles which we expect, if it is not always a virtue99 that elevates and refines, it is because we have lowered woman to the level of our lasciviousness100, because even we, civilized101 men, feel for her more desire than esteem102, more lust than love. And yet woman thirsts more than man for the ideal, and, like all oppressed creatures, looks upward with more faith. Her[Pg 113] exquisitely103 sensitive nature, open to the raptures104 of enthusiasm, easily inflamed106 by the warmth of poetry, attracts her irresistibly107 to higher and higher altitudes, and she would have helped us also to soar if we had not made of her a sweet concubine or a good housewife. Woman feels the ideal, aspires108 to every sublimity, but she has neither courage nor strength to ascend9; and if she is not supported by the robust109 arm of her lover, she will become easily prostrated110 and sit down to rest on the path that leads upward. To her nature has assigned the task of indicating the high aim, to us the duty of accompanying and sustaining her. In a magnificent painting by Schoeffer, Dante is standing111 below, Beatrice above. Dante gazes at her, contemplates113 her and is inspired by her; and Beatrice, her eyes turned to heaven, seems to say to him: "Upward, upward! There it is where we shall go together!" Nothing is more contagious114 than enthusiasm; nothing more fascinating, more irresistible115 than the enthusiasm of woman. Without arguments that induce one to believe, without the strength of hoping, sustained only by love, she is always full of faith in great and beautiful things, and at every step of life, now handsome by her sublime116 imprudence, now affecting by her youthful enthusiasm, seems to say to us: "Onward117, onward!" And with her tender little hands she draws us upward, guides us and lends us her ever fresh strength, even when she would appear fatigued118.
When Christ made faith the corner-stone of his religion, when he said that with faith we could move the mountains, he was inspired, perhaps, by that ardent119 faith which woman is possessed120 of and which makes her strong in her weakness. Woe121 to us, if before preparing for an undertaking we should be obliged to weigh with mathematical precision all favorable and unfavorable probabilities; woe to us, if we were to launch only into those enterprises of which we are sure! More than three-fourths of the great achievements would never have been performed. There is always an element which evades calculation, and it is in the capricious hands of destiny; it is the lacuna which must be filled by faith, by that faith which lifts the mountains, and which woman so deeply feels and so[Pg 114] tenderly infuses into our hearts. You may point at the most celebrated122 eunuchs of the heart, who, without the aid of woman, reached the prodigious123 heights of fame; but I most solemnly affirm that, had they been guided by a loving hand, they would have soared still higher. Love is a second sight, and woman sees things from a point of view which nearly always escapes the synthetic124 survey of man; she discovers many hidden elements of things which we, through excessive haste or excessive pride, do not see; and helping125 us with the light of love, she assists us in penetrating more deeply into the substance of every problem and, above all, into the knowledge of human nature. In small and great things, after having consulted science and art, experience and imagination, after having read the book of history and the book of the human heart, you should never fail to consult the woman who loves you; whether about a book, or a law, or a work of art, or commerce, or industry, or poetry, woman will always have something new to tell you, she will always have her revelations, and through the action of love you will feel elevated.
Some men of talent lack the coefficient of ambition to ascend, and you will often see them die before producing the fruit of their gigantic forces; only woman and love can give them that energy which they cannot obtain from the stimulus126 of self-love. Eve knows how to infuse faith into the skeptic127, ambition into the disheartened, strength to all; unaspiring for herself, she is intensely ambitious, haughty128, proud, if necessary, for the man she loves; and thrones and political power, civil and martial129 crowns, glories of art and science, were won through the ambition lent or inspired by a beloved woman. In heroic and chivalrous130 ages this was publicly proclaimed and boasted of; today, when women are sold in houses of prostitution or at the counter of matrimony, it has become fashionable to blush at owing one's glory to a woman, and the chivalrous element, alas131! sank and perished together with many other evil things which we would not like to see come back again. Chivalrous love vanished and its place was taken by the cicisbeism of our[Pg 115] great-grandfathers, while today in the limbo132 of a new rising generation we feel that we begin to discern the germs of a more beautiful epoch133 for the amorous134 life of man.
The more ballast love throws away which keeps it near to the ground, the higher we soar in the regions of the ideal. This ballast consists all of lust and self-pride, and it is woman's duty to help us throw it out of our car. She should not assist with her lasciviousness and her vanity in further debasing man's loves, already so brutish and vulgar. In the rapture105 we feel when inhaling135 the pure air of the loftiest mountains, we may sometimes forget that night is drawing near and home is far away; and thus in love we may feel so carried away by the fascination136 of the ideal as to desire a love without contact, the spirit without the matter. These are sublime derangements of the brain, only too rare, but reaching the extreme limits of human possibilities; they lead to delirium137, to self-sacrifice; they drag us to folly138 or to martyrdom. If a desire continues durable139 and pure upon the highest summits of human love and is not perturbed by the contact of matter, men from beneath will contemplate112 that statue as a fantastic monument erected140 by the morning clouds of the mountain. Not knowing whether it is an effect of the mist or the imagery of a dream, they contemplate and admire.
The pure and intimate communion of thought and sentiment, with nothing of the senses but two clasping hands and two pairs of eyes which blend together, is certainly a voluptuousness among the greatest of the sexual world; and without any need of platonic141 love, it may so happen that two creatures in that moment will forget that one of them is a man and the other a woman. Then feminine nature shines with all the halo of its celestial142 light; from that source of poetry, genius may draw its greatest energies. Then coarse natures undergo the influence of refinement143 in that pure air, social scrofula disappears and all human soil is washed off. Women, you should take advantage of those fleeting144 instants to regenerate145 the human family and urge it on to higher destinies! The influence of the ecstasy146 of sentiment on man[Pg 116] is of shorter duration than on woman, and your angel will soon fall at your feet, imploring147 of you the kiss of the terrestrial creature. You are omnipotent148 then, for you have the lion at your feet; and if man is strong, you are stronger still, since his strength is all for you. Guide it toward the good and the better; direct it to the beautiful. In that lion which roars with a subdued149 voice at your feet there is still much of the beast; in that conquered Hercules there is still much of the human brute150. Silence the beast by running your slender fingers through his disheveled mane, summon forth151 from the depths holy energies, noble inspirations and a thirst for the ideal. We wish to be great for your sake; we wish to be strong in order to give you all our strength; we desire the conquest, but only to place it at your feet. To every kiss of yours may the human family owe a great attainment153; to every endearment154 of yours, a useful deed! May your love be the highest and dearest prize to every ambition! True, you are weak; but when you are desired you are very strong. Who dares assert that he is stronger than the "no" of a woman? What phalanx attempts to advance when the finger of woman threatens and commands: "Stand back!"?
Woman sins at least four times less than man; she fears crime, she is horrified155 at the very thought of crime. Let us, then, disarm156 the man who too often wounds or strikes; let the coward find no woman who loves him, let him have no cup but that of the coarsest voluptuousness; let the ignorant, the debased, the social parasites157, all the fiends of the moral world, find no bosom158 of woman on which to rest their heads! As the Church once would banish159 excommunicated persons, so that they could find no bread, no shelter, it should so be with moral monsters: let them be banished160 from the region of love! And the elect women, whom nature favored with the fateful gift of beauty, should preserve their treasures for the strong and the immortal161; their smiles should be the crown of triumphing genius and magnanimous heart, for genius and beauty are the most sublime interlacement of human forces, one of the most splendid pictures of the nature of living beings.
Love, after having spread the minute fibrils of its tiny roots into all the deep fissures162 of the human world and absorbed every drop of liquor, every throb163 of energy, sends up to the branches of the robust tree every sap and every energy; and there, high in the air, leaves, flowers, and fruits drink from the rays of the sun the sweetest and most inebriating164 voluptuousness. There, in those regions full of light and heat, and which no worm of the soil, no atom of dust, no miasmatic165 exhalation ever attain152, profundity becomes sublimity, and man and woman, blended in the ecstasy of an ardent contemplation of the beautiful and the good, ask of themselves: "And what is God?"
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