approximated. The best marriages are ac-
complished works of art, yielding large re-
wards through all their progressive stages.
But love is ever unstable. Unwatched, it,
slips down among the lower forms of al-
truism.

These defects of love are, however, but
incidental and such as are common in all
man's undertakings. There is nothing in
love which can render it immune from
human infirmity. But there are also in it
certain fundamental defects which prevent
it from becoming an organizing world-
principle. At least before it can weld in-
dividuals into societies and states it must
undergo large transformation and appear
rather as justice than domestic affection.
For love is naturally selective and indi-
vidual, picking out one and rejecting an-
other. It does not offer its bounty alike
to all. Private altruism, it might be called,
so that it always seems indelicate to speak
of it in public. It concerns only those
immediately involved and only their most
intimate experiences. From such limita-
tions it needs to be freed before it can be-
come formative over society. All that is
conjunctive in it must be retained and only

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