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The Book of Love

by Paolo Mantegazza

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  1. 1Foreword
  2. 2To the Reader
  3. 3Introduction General Physiology of Love
  4. 4Chapter I — Love in Plants and Animals
  5. 5Chapter II — Morning Crepuscules of Love — The Good and Evil Source…
  6. 6Chapter III — The First Weapons of Love — Courtship
  7. 7Chapter IV — Modesty
  8. 8Chapter V — The Virgin
  9. 9Chapter VI — Conquest and Voluptuousness
  10. 10Chapter VII — How Love Is Preserved and How It Dies
  11. 11Chapter VIII — The Depths and the Heights of Love
  12. 12Chapter IX — Sublime Puerilities of Love
  13. 13Chapter X — Boundaries of Love, and Their Relations to the Senses
  14. 14Chapter XI — Boundaries of Love — Their Relations to Other Sentimen…
  15. 15Chapter XII — Boundaries of Love — Their Relations to Thought
  16. 16Chapter XIII — Chastity in Its Relations to Love
  17. 17Chapter XIV — Love in Sex
  18. 18Chapter XV — Love and Age
  19. 19Chapter XVI — Love in Relation to Temperaments — Of the Ways of Loving
  20. 20Chapter XVII — The Hell of Love
  21. 21Chapter XVIII — The Degradations of Love
  22. 22Chapter XIX — Faults and Crimes of Love
  23. 23Chapter XX — Rights and Duties of Love
  24. 24Chapter XXI — The Covenants of Love

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