to please you, then glorify yourself exceedingly - all to yourself, of

course. If you let Adam know you are managing him even for his own

good, he will show his independence by going back to his old

tricks - just as you would do if in his place. If there has been

friction, or lack of success, let it wake you up to use henceforth more

of the wisdom and love which is in you.

 

Now this little homily is written ostensibly to women; but all my men

subscribers will read it and applaud. I wonder how many of them will

see that every word of it is as applicable to themselves, as to their

mothers, sisters, sweethearts, wives? Every Eve is Adam at heart, and

every Adam is Eve; and what in sauce for Adam will prove equally

effective with Eve. Adam and Eve are both green, and growing. They are

the two halves of a ripening peach, brought together by the Law of

Attraction or Love because at this stage in their development they

fit. You will be inclined to doubt that every Adam's nature fits his

Eve's, but I say unto you judge not according to outward appearance but

judge righteous judgment. Now listen: - Every human being has his

manifested good points and his latent good points. The manifest good

points of a man are the Adam of him; the latent good points - the weak

places in him - are the Eve of him - the interior as-yet-undeveloped part

of him. The strong points, the good points, of a woman are the Eve; the

weak points, where she is as yet undeveloped, are the Adam or interior

nature of her.

 

If it were not for personal attractions, particularly the attractions of

one man and one woman, the latent parts of both men and women would

remain forever undeveloped and their strong points would continue to

grow stronger. In time (supposing the race did not die out), there would

be two classes of people utterly different and at variance with each

other - two opposites with no understanding or sympathy for each other.

 

Attraction brings together opposites; the strong, steady man falls in

love with a frivolous butterfly; a handsome woman attracts a homely man

and vice versa; a strong, capable woman marries a sickly, incompetent

man - and supports him; a sentimental woman is attracted to a

matter-of-fact man who develops her common sense by pruning her

sentimentalities; an artistic temperament is drawn to a phlegmatic; a

sanguine to a bilious; a mental to a vital; an active man marries a lazy

wife, or vice versa; a bright man marries a stupid girl; and so on

and on.

 

Man and wife are a rounded whole in which the man manifests what is

latent in the woman, and the woman supplies that which in the man is as

yet undeveloped. Just as Eve coaxes, or scolds, Adam into habits of

neatness; as Adam coaxes, scolds or drives Eve into having his meals on

time, thus developing her self-command and promptness; so they act and

re-act upon each other to develop a thousand latencies of which they,