The Moral Part of Love

Among the passions which ruffle the heart of man there is one of a hot and impetuous nature. It despises all dangers bears down all obstacles and in its transport it seems proper to destroy the human species, he says. He asks: What must become of men abandoned to this lawless and brutal rage without modesty, without shame, and every day disputing the objects of their passion at the expense of their blood? The laws were capable of oppressing these evils but they see it as no more than stopping the progress of a mischief which they themselves have produced. We would do well to look back a little further and examine if these evils did not spring up with the laws themselves.