Historia amoris; a history of love (1906) PDF by Edgar Saltus

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Historia amoris; a history of love ( ancient and modern) 

The first created thing was light. Then life came, then death. In between was fear. But not love. Love was absent. In Eden there was none. Adam and Eve emerged their adult. The phases of the delicate fever that others in paradise have experienced left them unaffected. Instead of the reluctance and attraction, the hesitancies and aspirations, the preliminary and common conflagrations which are the beginnings, as they are also the sacraments, of love, abruptly they were one. 

They were married before they were mated. The union, entirely allegoric a Persian conceit differed, otherwise, only in the poetry of the accessories from that which elsewhere actually occurred. Primitive man was necessarily speechless, probably simian, and certainly hideous. 

Women, if possible more hideous still, were joined by him momentarily and immediately forgot. Ultimately, into the desolate poverty of the rudimentary brain there crept a novelty. The novelty was an idea. Women were detained, kept in lairs, made to serve there. Further novelties ensuing, creatures that had learned from birds to talk passed from animality. Subsequent progress originated in a theory that they were very clearly entitled to whatever was not taken away from them. From that theory, all institutions proceed, primarily that of family.

 Contents:

I Super Flumina Babylonis 1

II The Curtains of Solomon 10

III Aphrodite Urania 28

IV Sappho 41
V The Age of Aspasia 53

VI The Banquet 65

VII Roma-Amor 75

VIII Antony and Cleopatra 87

IX The Imperial Orgy 97

X Finis Amoris 110

PART TWO

I The Cloister and the Heart 125

II The Pursuivants of Love 138

III The Parliaments of Joy 150

IV The Doctors of the Gay Science 164
V The Apotheosis 177

VI Bluebeard 191

VII The Renaissance 198

VIII Love in the Seventeenth Century 213

IX Love in the Eighteenth Century 237

X The Law of Attraction 251

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