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- Publisher
- George Cawthorn
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1798 American Psychological Association
- Pages
- 128 –154
- DOI
- 10.1037/11671-007
- Publisher site
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Abstract
The word love awakens in the minds of those who hear it almost as many different ideas as the impressions of which they are susceptible. Every body imagines he has been in love, and almost every body is mistaken in this opinion. The other passions are much more natural, and consequently more frequent than this, for it is that with which the smallest quantity of selfishness is connected. It is by the assistance of reflection, it is by divesting myself of all the enthusiasm of my youth, that I intend to consider love, or, to speak more correctly, that absolute devotion of our being, to the sentiments, the happiness, the destiny of another, as the highest idea of felicity which can exalt the hope of man. It is certain that of all the passions, love is the most fatal to the happiness of man. In this chapter, the author considers the pleasures and pains of love, focusing specifically on the difference of love between men and women. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Published: Nov 10, 2008
Keywords: love; passions; happiness; human sex differences; pain; pleasure; selfishness