Edward Carpenter

Marriage in Free Society Edward Carpenter

OF the great mystery of human Love, and that most intimate personal relation of two souls to each other-perhaps the firmest, most basic and indissoluble fact (after our own existence) that we know; of that strange sense-often, perhaps generally, instantaneous-of long precedent familiarity and kinship, that deep reliance on and acceptation of another in his or her entirety; of the tremendous strength of the chain which thus at times will bind two hearts in lifelong dedication and devotion