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લગ્ન અને પુનર્લગ્ન સંબંધી વિચારે.
lies at its foundation It is, however, the piquant element and the joke of life that the chief concern of all men is secretly pursued and ostensibly ignored as much as possible. But, in fact, we see it every moment seat itelf, as the true and hereditary lord of the world, out of the fullness of its own strength, upon the ancestral throne, and looking down from thence with scornful glances, laugh at the preparations which have been made to bind it, imprison it, or at least to limit it and wherever it is possi. ble to keep it concealed, or even so to master it that it shall only appear as a subordinate, secondary concern of life. *
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If we now connect the condition we have gained here of the inheritance of the Character (Will) from the father and the intellect from the mother with our earlier investigation of the wide gluf which nature has placed between man and man in a moral as in an intellectual regard, and also with our knowledge of the absolute unalterableness both of the character and of the mental faculties, we shall be led to the view that a real and thorough improvement of the human race might be attained to not so much by instruction and culture as rather upon the path of generation If we could castrate all scoundrels, and shut up all stupid geese in monasteries, and give persons of noble character a whole harem, and provide men (and indeed, complete mea) for all maidens of mind and understanding, a generation would soon arise
