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લગ્ન અને પુનર્લગ્ન સંબંધી વિચારો.
૫૩૧ human effort, exerts an adverse influence on the most important events, interrupts the most serious occupations every hour, sometimes embarra. sses for a while even the greatest minds, does not hesitate to intrude with its trash interfering with the negotiations of statesmen and the investigations of men of learning, knows how to slip its love letters and locks of hair even into ministerial portfolios and philosophical manuscripts, and no less devises daily the most -entangled and the worst actions, destroys the most valuable relationships, breaks the firmest bonds, demands the sacrifice sometimes of life or health, sometimes of wealth, rank and happiness, nay, robs those who are otherwise honest of all conscience, makes those who have hitherto been faithful, traitors; accordingly, on the whole, appears as a malevolent demon that strives to pervert, confuse, and overthrow every. thing;-then one will be forced to cry, wherefore all this noise ? Wherefore the straining and storming, the anxiety and want? It is merely a question of every Hans finding his Grethe.. Why should such a trifle play so important a part, and constantly introduce disturbance and confusion into the well-regulated life of man ?. But to the earnest investigator the spirit of truth gradually reveals the answer. It is no trifle that is in question here; on the contrary, the importance of the matter is quite proportionate to the seriousness and ardour of the effort. The ultimate end of all love affairs, whether they are played in sock or cothurnus, is really
