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orafgaan. it is not only the strongest, but oveu specifically of a more powerful kind than any other. It is everywhere tacitly assumed as necessary and ineritable, and is not, like other desires, a matter. of taste and disposition. For it is the desire which eren constitutes the nature of man In conflict with it there is no motive* which is so strony that it would be certain of victory. It is so pre-eminently the chief concern that no other pleasures make up for the deprivation of its fatisfaction, and, moreover, for ils sake both brute and man undertake every danger and every conflict. * * * *
To all this corresponds the important role vibich the relation of the texes plays in the world of men, where it is really the invisible. central point of all action and conduct, and Leeps out everywhere in spite of all veils throunOut it It is tho cause of war and the end of reace the basis of what is serious, and the aim of the jest, the inexbaustible source of wit, the key to all allusions, and the meaning of all mysterious hints, of all unspoken offers ard all stolen glances, the daily ineditation of the young, and often also of the old, tho hourly thought of the unchaste, and even against their will the constantly recurring ima gination of the chaste, the ever ready material of a joke, just liecause the profoundest seriousness
* And still the poor modern writers and preacbero of India think that this instinct can be controlled by every young widow upon whom their concepts of religion Eld morality would impose enforced chastity !-V. M. Shah.
