Excerpt from The Song of Songs Which Is Solomon'sThere are people, he knows, mostly gentle, who appear to regard the relation of the sexes as improper. Nevertheless we owe a great deal to it, including ourselves, and could not well do without any more than the ¿owers, which would all dry up and blow away and leave no growth and no beautv anywhere on the face of the earth. The Ancient Jews1s t e greatest, e e g t e 0t er orm, reverence, t e1r umon, awe, the same, fear predominating, devotion, love predominating, jealousy, love and hate, horror, fear and, the hate predominating, making sick, terror, fear predominating, making us mad, wrath, the reaction from our sense of right, when we are rage, the same, when we are wrong calflove, immature, doting, senile, heat, natural, lust, exaggerated, prurience, repressed, concupiscence, general, infatuation, particular, prudery, dis, coquetry, simulated, etc. - self-projecting, exhaustive Passions, all of which, pretty much, your informant has sulfered. Write down, love if a form of worship), perfectly and naturally depicted herein. The taste, the fashion, the fad, the fancy, of it may be changing, but the thing IT self will continue to be when we no longer cast the shadow of our opinion, valueless perhaps to other times and places, as that of other times to us in Boston, upon, above, around, and over, to conceal, how vainly! Some part of it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.