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morality of the common life between man and
woman. Some day society will look upon the
arrangements of the love relation as the
private affair of responsible individuals. Those
who are lovers, those who are married will
regard themselves as completely free, and will
also be so regarded. Binding promises in
respect of emotions, demands of exclusive
possession over personality, have already come
to be regarded by fine feeling and fully
developed human beings as a relic of erotic
sentiments on a lower plane. These sentiments
were the outcome of desire for mastery, vanity,
cruelty, and blind passion. People are beginning
to see that perfect fidelity is only to be
obtained by perfect freedom; that complete
exchange of individuality can only take place
in perfect freedom; that complete excellence
can only come into being in perfect freedom.
Each must cease to try to force and bend the
emotions, opinions, habits, and inclinations of
the other towards him- or herself. Each must
regard the continuance of the feeling of the
other as a happiness, not as a right. Each
must regard the possible cessation of this
feeling as a pain, not as an injustice. Only in
this way can there arise between the two
souls such pure, full, freedom that both can
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