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4 DAILY ENQUIRER - SUN, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 31, 1886. The Subject Discussed and Answered by Grant Allen. i Prudish Old Man's Whims Against Falling In menu ° U U ‘ e Whole their natural comple- J j , THEV PREFER OUTSIDERS, flesh blood, somebody who ec peyond the community, to the lueir own immediate surroundings. ,,, r iy r'll Bnt ^ di8l i. ke t0 marr yi>'B among tlie folk with whom they have been Drought up amounts almost to a positive instinct, they feel it as impossible to fall people of idings. lane—He Believes In Artificial Mating-Who ! bl love with a fellow-townswoman sad What We Fnll In Love With—Love at First Sight Mo Foolish Fancy. In the course of an entertaining article in the Fortnightly Review, Grant Allen says: An ancient and famous human institu tion is in pressing danger. Sir George Campbell has set his face against the time honored practice of falling in love. Pa rents innumerable, it is true, have set their faces against it already from immemorial antiquity; but then they only attacked the particular instance, without venturing to impugn the institution itself on general principles. An old Indian administrator, however, goes to work in all thing; on a different pattern. He would always like to regulate human life generally as a de partment of the Indian office; and so Sir George Campbell would fain have hus bands and wives selected for one another (perhaps on Dr. Johnson’s principle by the lord chancellor) with a view to the future development of the race, in the process of which he not very felicitously or elegantly describes as “man-breeding.” “Proba bly,” he says, os reported in Nature, “we have enough physiological knowledge to fall in love with their own first cousins. Ainong exogenous tribes such an instinct (aided, ot course, by other extraneous causes), has hardened into custom; and there is reason to believe (from the universal traces among the higher civiliza tions ot marriage by capture) that all the leading rrces of the world are ultimately derived from exogamous ancestors,possess ing this healthy and excellent sentiment.. In minor matters it is, of course, univer sally admitted tha short men, as a rule, prefer tall women, while tall men admire 11 -,u .". omen ' Dark pairs by preference with fair; the commonplace often runs af- i? r ori F inal - People have long no ticed that this attraction towards one’s op posite tends to keep true the standard of the race; t hey have not. perhaps, so gen erally observed that it also indicates roughly the existence in either individual ot a desire for its own natural comple- ment. It is difficult here to give definite examples, but everybody knows bow, in the subtle psychology of falling in love, there are involved innumerable minor ele ments. physical and mental, which strike us exactly because of their absolute adap tation to form with ourselves an adequate union. Of course we do not definitely seek out and discover such qualities; in stinct works far more intuitively than that; but we find at last, by subsequent ob servation, how true and how trustworthy were its immediate indications. That fs to say, those men do so who were wise enough or fortunate enough to follow the earliest promptings of their own hearts effect a vast improvement in the pairing and not be ashamed of that divinest ami ... : dOP DCSt. of lliimnn incHtnHr\nc of individuals of the same or allied races if we could only apply that knowledge to make fitting marriages instead of GIVING WAY TO FOOLISH IDEAS about love and the tastes of young people, whom we can hardly trust to choose their own bonnets, much less to choose in a graver matter in which they are most likely to be Influenced by frivolous preju dices.” He wants us, in other words, to discard .he deep-seated inner physiological promptings of inherited instinct and to substitute for them some calm and dispas sionate but artificial selection of a fitting partner as the father or mother of future generations. Now, this is of course a serious subject, and it ought to be treated seriously and reverently. But it seems to me Sir George Campbell’s conclusion is exactly the oppo site one from the conclusion now being forced upon men of science by a study of the biological and psychological elements in this very complex problem ot heredity . instinctive desire for a particular he So far from considering love as a toolisn . is a Kur; . ; . „. ui(lc for thu mtim l!e ha , idea,” opposed to the oest interest op the . both nf the race and nf the Puli race, I believe most competent physiolo gists and psychologists, especially those of the modern'evolutionary school, would deepest of human institutions, LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT. The writer argues his point at consider able length and in conclusion says: 1 do not doubt that, as the world goes on, a deeper sense of moral responsibility in the matter of marriage will grow up among us-. But it will not take the false di rection of ignoring these, our profouudest and holiest instincts. Marriage for money may go; marriage for rank may go; mar riage for position may go; but marriage for love, I believe and trust, will last forever. Men in the future will probably feel that a union with their cousins or near rela tions is positively wicked; that a union with those too like them in person or dis position is at least undesirable; that a union based upon considerations of wealth or any other consideration save consider ations of immediate natural impulse, is base and disgraceful. But to the end of time they will continue to feel, in spite of doctrinaires, that t lie voice ■ f nature s better far than the voice of the lord chan cellor or the royal society; and that the r helpmate happiness both of the race and of the individual, than any amount of deliberate consulta tion. It is not the foolish fancies of vouth A U m a ■ & THE LEADING Dress Goods House OE THIS SEGTIOD. Carrying More Dress Goods and More Dress Trimmings Than Any House in Columbus. Novelties Every Week! 800IH & IS THE PLACE FOR — . . . that will have to be got rid of, but the gat'd it rather as an essentially beneticcin, foolish, wicked and mischievous interfer- and conservative instinct, developed and , ,,( parents and outsiders, maintained in us by natural causes, for the very purposes of insuring just ihost pro cisc advantages and improvements which Sir George Campbell thinks he could him self effect by a conscious and deliberate PROCESS OF SELECTION. 1.0]OK F.LIMit. Kilitftrhd. Office Sunday Telegram, Atlanta, Ga., October 0, 18S5.—Mr. Moziey: More than that, I believe, for my own 1 me to thank you most kindly for the bottle part (and 1 feel sure most evolutionists 1 of Lemon Elixir. I am l ot much ofnbe- would cordially agree with me), that this ' liever in medicine, but being overtaxed by beneficent inherited instinct of falling in i excessive office work, 1 c..,,ciuded to try love e)fee's the object it Lias in view far your Lemon Elixir. It proved all arid more admirably, subtly and satisfactorily, more than you claimed for it. It acts like on the average of instances, than any j a charm on the liver, stomach and bowels, clumsy human selective substitute could : gives a check to nervousness and produces possibly effect It. In short, my doctrine whntJ craved most, namely: pleasant and is simply the old-fashioned and confiding : refreshing rest at night. I coraialty reconi• belief t hat marriages arc made in heave n; ■ mend your remedy ns a delightful tonic in with the- further corollary that heaven I all cases of indigestion, biliousness and ner- manages them, one time with another, a vons prostration. Chas. T. Logan, great ileal better than Sir George Camp- Editor and Proprietor Sunday Telegram. Sold bv druggists. 50c and'el per'bottle. Prepared by H. Moziey, M. D., Atlanta, Ga. oct-t selm bell. We cannot fa;l in love with everybody alike. We do fall in love, tak ing us in the lump, with the young, the beautiful, the strong and the healthy; we do not fall In love, taking us in tile lump, with the aged, the ugly, the feeble and the sickly. The prohibition of the church is scarcely needed to pievent a man from marrying his grandmother. Moralists have always borne a. special grudge to pretty faces; but ns Mr. Herbert Spencer admirably put it (long bieU'.: tc n,.it ■ ir- afici of Darwin's selective theory], the saying that beauty is but slcin-de -p Is itself but a skin deep saying. ’ In reality, beauty is one of the very best guides we can pos sibly have to the desirability, so far as race preservation is concerned, of any man fir woman ms a partner in marriage. A fine form, a good figure, n beautiful bust, a round arm and neck, a fresh complexion, a lovely face, are all out ward and visible sign: o’’ the physical qu 1 its that oil the whole conspire to make up a healthy and vigorous wife and mother; so indues , fertility, a good i good digestion. Conversely, suUownc» and paleness are roughly indicative of ciys- pepsia and anaemia. A FLAT CHEST tea symptom of deficient maternity; and what wc call a bad figure is really in one way or anot her an unhealthy departure from the central norma and standard of the race. Good teeth means good deglu tition; a clear eye means an active liver; scrubhiness and undersized ness mean fee* ble virility. Nor are indicate ns oi mental and moral efficiency by any means want ing as recognized elements in -personal beauty. A good humored faccis in itself almost pretty. A pleasant smile halt re deems unattractive features. Low,receding fo -eheads strike as unfavorably. Heavy, stolid, half-idiotic countenances can nev er , jfoston Buac be beautiful, however regular their lines J and contours. Intelligence mid goodness are almost as necessary us health and vigor in order to make upa perfect idea of a beau tiful human face and figure. The Apollo Belvidereis no fool; the murderers in the chamber of horrors at Mine. Tussaud’s are for the mosl part no beauties. What we all fall in love with, then, as a race, is in must cases efficiency and ability. What we c.ieh fall in love with individu ally is 1 believe, our moral, mental and physical complement. Not our like, not our counterpart; quite the contrary; with in healthy limits, our unlike and our oppn- . Bite. That this is so has long been more ; or less a commonplace of ordinary con versation; that it is scientifically true, one j , time with another, when wo take an ex- , I lie Bui III i ng Trade. A tomb has been discovered in Egypt by Prof. Mas per o in which a square, a ma son’s lever, compasses and other tools have, been found beside a mummy. The dead man was an architect, builder and carver of inscriptions, having control of one quarter of the cemetery at Thebes. The tomb was very comfortably furnished with linen chests, painted jars, st.atue.ts and other articles of use or luxury, and contained two sledges for the transport of mummies and sarcophagi. You are feeling depressed, your appetite is poor, you are bothered with headache, you are tidgetty, nervous and generally out of sorts, anil want to brace up. Brace up, but not with stimulants, spring medicines, j they imply | or bitters, which have for their basis very citation, a cheap, had whisky, and which stimulate! you for an hour, and t hen leave you in worse condition than before. 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BLANCHARD, BOOTH & HUFF Jersey Jackets COMMISSIONERS’ SALE —for Partition- Two Valuable Plantations^ ( i EOROIA, MUSCOGEE COUNTY—Under and " * by virtue of un order from the Superior Courfc. of Muscogee County, punned a* the May term, 1WWB thereof, the undersigned Commissioners appoint ed by said court will well in front of the courfe. house of said county, in the city of Columbus, odd. t he first Tuesday in Novi mber next, between thft t % till I IIK III lilt LtMIII I ., 'll .V| llrl.l . niHIU I leorgia, to-wit; All that body of land known i the "Jumes II. Jones”or "Ridgewood Plantation, " consisting of lot No. 258 in the ninth district, also* lot.s Nos. 288 and 291, two hundred two and a half. 1202 1 ••) acres each, more or less: also 100 acres of thft.* north part oflot No. 287 at Jones’ C'rossi n g, als<i> fractional lots Nos. 289 and 290, eighty-one <81) acre» each, all in the tenth district, also the south halff of lot No. 287 one hundred one and a quarter: 1101 1 11 am s more or less; also fractional lots Nos . 257 and 288, ninety (90) acres each, in seventeenth)! district; also fractional lot No. 1 in eighteenths district,sixty-seven unci a half 67' •) acres more opt less. Said plantation containing in all twelve 1 ' family cemetery,” containing acre, and the* right of access thereto', hounded on north bir lands of Boyd, Stripling and McFarland... west by McFarland. south by Mc Farland and Cox. east bv the’ "Carnes place.” Improvements an Broom two story dwelling house, tenant houses, gin anef. screw, stables, well fine water and good fences Also, the body of land known as the "Carnes*, place,” consisting oflot No. 257, two hundred two* and one-luilf 202'..» acres; part of lot No. 264 weatfc of Kendall creek, one hundred five and three- fourths 1105 h i acres, more or 1»br; fractional loft. No. 258, eighty-one '81 > acres, and all that part oft fractional lot No. 255,'west of Kendall creek and? south of a line running due west from said creek'. 8 chains and 20 links south of the d strict line, eon - tabling eighteen and three-fourtns is a- rcs- more or less, said plantation containing in all? four hundred and eight acres, more oi less; all in the tenth district of said county; hounded north-, by Boyd’s place t south by Cox. east by IvendalL creek and Jenkins, west by “Joins place” Im provements a commodious one-story dwelling* house, outhouses, good fences and well of fine water. Terms of sale: One-third cash on day of Balt*, balance one and two years ; equal amounts, with, interest 7 per cent, secured by mortgage. Posses sion of Doth places given on January 1,1887. De scription of lauds from recent survey by Jno. EL.. Lamar, county surveyor. Sale for partition. 1). A. ANDREWS, ) J. («. MOON, .-Comm’rs. TOL Y. 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Brothers and sisters have more in com mon, mentally and physically, than any other members of the same race can pos sibly have with one another. But nobody falls in love with his sister. A profound instinct has taught even the lower races of men (for the most part) to avoid such union of the all but identical. In the higher races the idea never so much as occurs to us. Even cousins seldom fall in love—seldom, that is to say, in comparison with the frequent opportunities oi inter course they enjoy relatively to the remain der of general society. When they do, and when they carry out their perilous choice effectively by marriage, natural selection soon avenges nature npon the offspring by cutting off the idiots, the consumptives, the weaklings and the cripples, who often result from such consanguinous marriages. In narrow communities, where breeding in - and-in becomes almost inevitable, natural selection has similarly to exert itself upon a crowd of cretins and other hapless mca- pables. But in the wide and open chap - paign countries, where individual choice has free room for exercise, men and wo men, as a rule (if not constrained by pa- j rents and moralists), marry for love, and j To My Hot in r. e in mad desire to find .r which my spirit yearned with door I knocked and knocked in alms which none to grant in- But lamSiinj?, treated :nc with cold disdain. Yet stilt I wandered, eager in the quest, Forever seeking, and for aye unblest, Since no one gave the boon for which I pined. Then, mother! turning to my home I went With wearv steps and sorrow numbing care, And lo! my pain was lost in sweet content, For what I sought came to me unaware; In the dear eves that on thy son were Pent All I had asked I found, for Love was there. --Translated from Heine. Malaria. 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