A country cannot be surveyed without tracing exactly its boundaries, without following them in their capricious and serpentine2 lines, without marking the point where its individuality ends and the influence of the neighboring country begins to be felt. You may have trampled3 every clod; wandered through every path, scented4 the soil of every field, and drunk the water of every spring and every stream; but if you have not sketched6 the confines of a country, you know less than half its history. Everything is important for what it is and what adjoins it. Not one, then, in this world can impunely be near to another, and all things act and react reciprocally. So it is with love, which has frontiers as vast as the human world, as indented7 as the coast of Dalmatia or of Norway, capricious, irregular, changeable. It is a land which projects into all adjacent countries, and with it sense, sentiment and thought come into close and complicated contact.
Every sense, every passion, every force of the mind is an instrument of love; but this, in turn, bends in a thousand different ways to senses, passions and thoughts. It is a continual interlacing of factors and instruments, of causes and effects; and while this gigantic power warms and agitates8 the inmost fibers9 of the human organism, it radiates its penetrating10 light to the furthermost confines of the world.
Love, which by the supreme11 right of existence requires the contact of two different natures, which is but the kiss of two creatures who blend for an instant and fuse together the germs of their power, must have most varied12, numberless[Pg 123] relations to the sense of touch. It could even be said, without departing from strict scientific truth, that physical love is a sublime13 form of contact and touch. In inferior animal forms, as well as in human natures of a low and bestial14 type, love is nothing but touch and contact; but ascending15 to the high spheres of the animal world and of the human microcosm, the other senses also add their flowers to the garland of love, with the exception of taste, which takes no part in the pleasures of love, except in peculiar16 cases, which can, without any scruple17, be entrusted18 to the clinic of pathological psychology19. Of the other four senses, touch has the greatest part in love, hearing the smallest; sight and smell range between the two former in very different degrees.
The senses, however, differ more in the nature of the joys and sorrows with which they take part in the greatest of human passions than in the various quantities of elements which they yield to love. Touch conquers, and twinges with delight; sight reveals and charms; hearing impassions and conquers; smell cherishes and inebriates20. We can easily have a comparative idea of the various parts which the four senses take in love by comparing these four moments: To see the beloved woman and gaze at her for a long time; to embrace her passionately21; to hear her voice without seeing her; to inhale22 voluptuously24 the aroma25 with which she is wont26 to scent5 her robe.
A thousand, a hundred thousand, a million notes would be insufficient27 to express all the harmonies and melodies of amorous28 contact; and as the most voluminous dictionary in the world would decline to enter upon such an undertaking29, the pen of the writer would slip into the field where science becomes lasciviousness31. I regret at times that one of the greatest poets did not sing the sublime voluptuousness32 of love with such loftiness of style as to leave his pen uncontaminated. Perhaps man would like to know also the limits of the genius of lust33, to mark the confines, too, of this human possibility; but I find some consolation34 for this sublime ignorance of ours, for this glorious lacuna left by modesty35 in the field of human knowledge, in thinking that where poetry[Pg 124] kept silent and science inactive, where an intimate contact of two kisses creates a new existence, an unknown current transmits to the new man, together with the sparks of life, all the treasures of past voluptuousness; and the son of Adam, with a second kiss, will transmit the innate36 science of love, pour all the nectar of the chalice37 of voluptuousness into the lips of the daughter of Eve. Sublime science, which was never written on papyrus38 nor sculptured in marble or bronze, but is transmitted in the flash of a kiss through thousands of generations that loved, love, and will love!
From the purest caress39 on a mass of hair to the greatest hurricane of voluptuousness, touch always keeps the character moulded for it by its anatomy40. Touch, in love, is always made oversensitive by voluptuousness, always deeply sensual, is always a positive, definite, uncontrasted and uncontrastable possession. Woman may delude41 herself into believing that she is unblemished by man's contact when his hand has but touched the hem1 of her garments or the leather of her shoes; but when skin has touched skin, when a finger has touched a finger, something is already lost of that waxy42 varnish43 which nature spreads upon the virginal fruit still preserving the perfume of the tree that nourished it. A hand that clasps a hand means, in love, two fires that blend in one; a mass of hair that touches a mass of hair means two streams of voluptuousness rushing into the bed of one river; two feet that come in contact are always two sparks that fly. A molecule45 of a man who loves can never touch impunely a molecule of the woman who returns his love; and although the contact may be more rapid than lightning, every molecule that returns to the spheres of its own individuality carries away something that does not belong to it, and leaves with the other something of itself. Touch soft iron with the loadstone and you will see it magnetized; touch a molecule of a man with that of a woman and the two molecules46 will not be what they were before. Touch is always the act of possession, and the thousand contacts can, gradually, steal so much, that we may find ourselves carried into the sphere of the woman we love, while she has entirely47 passed into our[Pg 125] sphere. Not in vain the modest woman trembles and rebels at every innocent contact. Every sensation of touch, in love, means a boundary that is eliminated between two properties; it means the loss of a property.
It is not hypocrisy48 alone that makes modesty more exacting49 in higher races; in exquisitely50 elevated natures a contact is more dangerous because it radiates rapidly into the field of voluptuousness, into that of the other senses and that of sentiment. Vulgar natures begin where refined natures end; and while too elevated natures live long together, held back by the barrier of a handshake, the bold and uncouth51 rustic52 throws a kiss to the girl and embraces her at the first declaration of love. It is typical of this most powerful passion to perform a hundred miracles a day and thus arrest voluptuousness at the last boundary of kissing; but adroitness53 and fortune are necessary to make it possible to stop there for a long time. From handclasping to the kiss the path may be very long and even endless; but beyond a kiss given and returned, every definite boundary has vanished and everything is possible. Even in touch love has but two principal stations before the goal is reached; handclasping and kiss. Whoever believes she has remained a virgin44 after a kiss given and returned is a hypocrite, like him who believes that the studied reticence54 of lust may still leave something to conquer. O women who have the dangerous fortune to be beautiful and to be desired, do not let your adorers go beyond handclasping; you may in rare cases arrive at the kiss that you may receive; but remember that a kiss returned is a tremendous bond, which you should never sign,—never, of course, unless you intend to change your name.
Sight is the first messenger of love, and in elect natures it is so prodigal55 of joy to lovers as to excel, in extensity if not in intensity56, even the insuperable heights of voluptuousness. Sight possesses everything save the delirium57 of possession, and rapid and penetrating as it is, it sounds at a stroke the abysses of infinite beauty, over which is suspended, as in a halo, the object of our love. What one contemplates59 with[Pg 126] the eyes of love from head to foot always ends in two infinities60 into which desire hurls61 itself with frenzied62 audacity63 and insatiable curiosity. Sight is made to accompany us in that delicious excursion; and as it can tarry long and suavely64 at a dimple of the cheek, at the little vortex of a curl or at the opalescence65 of a nail, it can also compel us to pass and repass with vertiginous66 speed, a thousand times in a minute, through the divine lines that enclose our treasure.
The eyes of love have all the virtue67 of the telescope and the microscope, and while not a single curve of the thousand labyrinths68 through which the mobile feminine beauty seems to flutter and flicker69 can escape them, they also attain70 the most sublime summits of ideal beauty. When the eye admires and conquers, it invites to the picture which it draws from nature all senses, all passions, all thought, all psychical71 energies of man. No other sense possesses this gigantic faculty72 of elevating us to the highest regions of the ideal, compelling the minor73 senses, the animal instincts and the lower passions to contemplate58 its panoramas74. The eye is the first minister of the mind, and while it refines desire and frees passion from the coarsest lasciviousness, it elevates the man and woman who love to the highest spheres of human possibility. Touch likes to remove the veils that cover the beautiful; sight need not divest75 the object it contemplates, for its light illumines every shade, penetrates76 through opaque78 bodies and makes them transparent79, threads its way through the most intricate folds, and while it sees it also surmises80, inspects, divines, analyzes81, measures, compares and controls with incredible agility82 all the elements of the esthetic83 world.
The eye which rests the rays of its light on a loving eye illumines it, is illumined in turn and shows to us the phenomenon of two brilliant stars exchanging their lights and rendering84 themselves more beautiful. If one does not lower the chaste85 eyelids86, it may so happen that the fire will spread from the high spheres of the esthetic ideal down to the vile87 and brutish instincts. This, in fact, happens in all men of a base type; every emotion of love is rapidly transferred to[Pg 127] the regions of touch. In elect natures, on the contrary, sight has ever some beauty to discover, a region to explore, a world to conquer. The richest man in the world can always count the dollars and the stocks he possesses; the most powerful king can always know the extent in square miles of his dominions88: but he who loves a beautiful creature dies without having seen, contemplated89 or admired all. In the last day of his life there is always some "unknown land" which the eye has not yet discovered or sufficiently90 explored. And this is just the intimate difference which distinguishes touch from sight. While the former has well determined91 boundaries and a definite task, the latter widens the limits of its dominions to include a number infinitely92 greater in esthetic combinations. In a flash of the eye you have seen a beautiful being and immediately said: "Oh, the angelic creature!" A chaos93 of sensations, a world of beautiful things have surprised, enraptured94, enamored you; but how many days, how many months, how many years will be required for your eyes to roam through the thousand paths of that garden, to study every flower, every petal95 of each flower. What intensity of voluptuous23 analysis, how many poems of delight, in order to say again, five or ten years after: "Oh, the angelic creature!"
Nature was very generous in distributing attractions in the bodies of man and woman, and the short, sad day of our life always vanishes before we have been enabled to see all the forms of human beauty. But to the esthetic treasures of nature, man succeeded in adding those of art; and with the thousand artifices96 of garment and ornaments97, we have added to our forms such and so many beauties that it is easier to imagine than to enumerate98 them. Perhaps I will some day attempt to write a "Physiology99 of Beauty," in which, if I do, I intend to point out the general laws which govern the esthetic world. Here I must only describe the confines where love and beauty meet and, in turn, kiss and fecundate each other. When the eye has love for a companion it finds a new world to contemplate in the cerulean star-thistle which our sweetheart interweaves for the first time in her[Pg 128] golden hair, or in the crimson100 geranium which gives a magnificent relief to her raven101 locks; a naughty little muslin apron102 may become a new continent, and a glove, which too cruelly and too tightly squeezes a rosy103 little hand, may enclose in the nest of its little buttons of mother of pearl so many new beauties as to stir our senses or infuse an unknown voluptuousness into us. The man who loves a beautiful woman laughs compassionately104 at the polygamist pasha who needs a hundred women to find the hundred beauties of the human Venus; and the beautiful woman, in the arsenal105 of her garments, in the variety of her smiles, in the thousand undulations of her flexuous body, evokes106 before the eyes of her lover not a hundred, but a thousand women, all beautiful with a different beauty.
Sight is the only sense which, in love, proceeds to effect moral and intellectual discoveries in the person beloved; and we not only contemplate to admire and to enjoy, but also to discover, by the flash of the eye and the throbbing107 of the facial muscles, how many affections, how many thoughts we can find in the one whom we intend to make ours forever. However, beauty is such a powerful tyrant109 in love that it forces us under its yoke110 and usurps111 the rights of the highest needs. A beautiful woman who is desired seldom seems to us frivolous112 and heartless, and the fascination113 of beauty may impel114 us to pardon every crime, to accept the most shameful115 compromises with our conscience, and may cause in us the most ridiculous and farcical hallucinations. However, this fault is not of the eyes, that see, but of the senses, that desire too ardently116; and, above all, of nature, which has such a loving care of the forms in which germs are moulded into living bodies. Nature defends and protects the beautiful above everything else, perhaps because it is the crucible117 in which the good and the true are melted together.
If I wished to indicate by an ideographic sign all the varied and essential parts which the sense of sight assumes in love, I would use the figure of a winged messenger, a sort of Mercury, with the left hand leading Voluptuousness on the earth, and with the right directing our gaze toward the[Pg 129] highest regions of the ideal, where in holiest and most tender company live the good and the beautiful, the true and the sublime, where are preserved all the variform archetypes of sublimity118.
Hearing has a small but interesting part in the story of love, if we set aside the prominent part it has as an instrument of thought. We are not to discuss here music or the value of ideas communicated through words, but the purely119 sensual influence of the ear in amorous phenomena120.
Hearing yields some pleasures almost tactile121, and always very sensual, such as are brought to us by some sounds which may be termed lascivious30 (the swish of a silk gown, the warbling of some birds, the murmur122 of certain waves, etc.); but beyond these rare exceptions, hearing has a tender, affectionate part. We would say that it stirs affections, predisposing them to vibrate with the sweetest, most impassioned notes. Man and woman have each a peculiar voice, and the sexual character of the feminine voice affects man, while the virile123 timbre124 of his voice causes woman's heart to throb108 with the most deeply sexual desires. There are some feminine voices that cannot be heard with impunity125, so suavely do their notes penetrate77 into the greatest depths of the heart, which throbs126 with excitement and emotion. The voice of some women resembles a caress by the wing of a swan; and while it delights us, it perturbs127 and confuses us, affects us deeply and lastingly128. Man and woman, through the notes of their voices, chastely129 reveal their sex, and the heart palpitates violently, as that of a girl bathing, who, before trusting her little foot to the wave, looks around as though frightened by the rustle130 of the leaves.
The sound of the voice, beyond the idea it represents, cannot say, "I am beautiful, I am intelligent," but it can say, alone, many other sweet things: "I am a woman, I am very much of a woman, I desire much, I am languishing131 with love, I am alone, I want you at once, I await you ardently," etc.
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The seduction of the voice has some of the characteristics attributed to ancient sorcery; it surprises, fascinates and conquers us, and we are unable to discover the cause of such a storm roused by a few sounds, a few words. We feel ourselves almost humiliated132 at being vanquished133 without a battle, carried off without our consent; and the fascination of a voice seems to us the work of a witch. More than once we have resisted the seductions of sight, the violence of touch; but the voice conquers us, delivers us, bound, hand and foot, into the arms of a mysterious power which demands from us the blindest submission134, against which rebellion is impossible. And this influence of the voice lasts a long time, is never forgotten, often survives love itself.
After long years of silence, indifference135, contempt, the wind carries to us the sound of a voice; and we feel ourselves disturbed, surprised, reconquered, as in the first day of our love. Hearing will cast its fishing-line into the deepest waters of our affection; and more than one love has been resuscitated136 miraculously137 from the coldest ashes by a dear voice which we had, perhaps, long since forgotten.
Love has many mysterious relations to the olfactory138 sense. In the animal world perfumes are often the more direct and powerful instigators in amorous struggles; and even before the female has seen the companion by whom she desires to be conquered, the wings of the wind have carried to her nostrils139 a perfume that inebriates and fills her with voluptuousness.
This sense may be a powerful excitant in inferior races, or in the lower type of men of high races, but it exercises, in love, a powerful influence even in the most refined natures, by means of perfumes which we have conquered from nature and which, by the omnipotence140 of chemistry, we know how to reproduce without having recourse to the power of life. We have brought into our power the essence of every petal, the perfume of every calyx, of every leaf, of every bark, the repugnant smell of many enamored animals, and, with impudent141 art, mixing the odors of flowers with exciting aromas,[Pg 131] we have concentrated in a few drops of essence so much olfactory voluptuousness as warm spring could hardly concentrate in a flowering meadow or in a tropical forest. Now the deep and intense voluptuousness of perfumes is the daughter of a remote atavism which makes us susceptible142 of the sexual exhalations of many living beings and, solely143 for this reason, no sense has more intimate ties with animal voluptuousness than smell.
If you study the expression on the face of a woman who is scenting144 a very odorous flower and feels as though inebriated145, you will see that such a picture resembles, more than anything else, a sublime scene of love. Ask many over-sensual men and they will tell you that they cannot visit with impunity the laboratories where essences and perfumes are made. Ask the art of the perfume-maker, and it will answer that, after having mixed a hundred essences of flowers and leaves, it gives relief to and improves all those perfumes by adding an infinitesimal quantity of a matter, fetid in itself, but taken from the organs of love of some animal. Ask why women love perfumes so much, and perhaps a few will be able to tell you, or will answer with a blush. And if by a long experience they have already learned the most subtle mysteries of the senses, all the finest arts of coquetry, they will tell you that perfumes are a powerful weapon in the arsenal of love and that some of them possess an irresistible146 charm over the senses of man.
It is difficult to remain a long time in the warm atmosphere of voluptuousness without sacrificing a great part of those noble forces which are destined147 for higher attainments148; and this explains why no impassioned mania149 for perfumes can have a moral influence over us. He who plunges150 into the tepid151, titillating152 and morbid153 wave of odors no longer measures his strength in relation to a chaste and robust154 virility155, but squeezes from the fruit the last drop of juice, and in the rapid convulsion of weariness imagines new delights. But between this human debasement and the contempt for perfumes there is an abyss, and by abandoning them to the courtesan, or to the savage156 woman who anoints herself from[Pg 132] head to foot, we throw away, without any reason, much of a dear and sweet voluptuousness which could be enjoyed and cultivated by us without any offense157 to morals.
Do you believe that a kiss given to that one whom you love and who is yours, through the petals158 of a rose, is a sin of lust? Do you ever believe that love gathered in a shower of violets, hyacinths and narcissus, between the crepuscules of two sighs, could be called lasciviousness? Nature is eternally rich, and the garlands we weave with her flowers around our joys do not deplete159 her inexhaustible gardens.
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