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runs into one fit- ting centre;: for filling it up with essence, but it gaes into each and all and drenches them in its wholesome element in varying degree according to their deserts. Many a~ are the forms and degrees of love, the highest, the greatest and the sublimest manifestation of it occurs only at the junction of an young man and a woman accomplished in all ideal qualities. In its immeasurable height and depth no other form of it can bear camparision with it. The man becomes the idol of her heart, while the woman occupies his inner sanctuary, at whose altar he will never hesitate to make any sacrifice that may be required of him. Thus the two come to acquire the virtue of leading a life for the other, a virtue, as it grows, makes it possessor identify his or her interests with the interests of the righteous.
From this form of the purest spiritual love, arises the necessity of acquiring wealth, not for filling his own wants, not for securing comforts and pleasures for his own self, but for keeping the object of his adoration, the offsprings of their love-union, the kith and kin of his heart, in un- mixed happiness and comfort. As the circle of those, whom he is thus bound by love and not by mere duty to support widens, as the number of those who lie under his protec- tion increases, ambition far wealth, power and distinction also increases, and this exercises his intelligence utmost and calls forth the play of all the innate powers of his mind. There can be no a greater incentive to stimulate the' intellectual energies af man, and nothing can induce him to display his formidable heroic deeds more, than what offers him a stout resistance to the achievement of his objects. This consideration naturally leads the author to bring in the topic of war, since war is the only perilous kind of resistance and obstacle that a man of the highest responsibilities meets with in the path of his ambitious life.
And lastly, when success has brought home to his mind, and to the mind of his partner, how full of cares, troubles, and untold miseries this earthly life is, to what great agony both the mind and body of a numberless beings human and animal are subjected by a few who seek their ease, comfort and happiness, the man and the woman,
