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THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
selfish manifestations of it which one observes in the relation of parents and their offspring, and the like. It is a misnomer to call such low forms of emotions by the name of Love, for, while the human lover loves one particular individual, he hates the rest of the world, -a remark which applies equally well to all the relations of love among men, whether those subsisting between parent and child, or amongst relations or friends. Human love is the love of a particular individual or, at the most, of a few individuals, but a hatred of the rest of the world; but love, in its true sense, is that roblest of emotions which, free from all kinds of bias in favour of any particular individual or community of men, expresses itself in the form of mental equanimity and compassion for all kinds of living beings. This is the only form of love which can save humanity from the clutches of Death. It is a libel to call the spasmodic, trickling streamlet of emotion, which flows only at the sight of some particular person or persons, and dries up at that of the rest of our race, to say nothing of the other forms of life, by the name of Love. Love is not a thing which bubbles up and flows at intervals, or by fits and starts ; it is one continuous, ever flowing, ever bubbling emotion which flows in all directions and towards all beings, human and animal. The former only makes the heart cold, but the latter opens out its lotus, and keeps it ever fresh and blooming, by constantly irrigating its roots with the living waters of Life. This lotus is not a myth invented by the yogis, as some biased missionaries, backed up by a knowledge of physiology, would have us believe. These gentlemen,
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