and proportionally influential among his fellow-citizens. He is much dreaded and hated by the lower and middle classes, and proportionally honored and loved (for his wealth's sake) by the upper ten thousand, who reside in the upland regions and attractive avenues. But there is an episode in his life worth telling:

-One day Mr. Boar, while walking and grunting for his health's sake, and more especially to get up an appetite for his late dinner, chanced to meet the beautiful Miss Gazelle. Miss G. was a sweet, gay, beaming, graceful creature, and beautiful to look upon. She was a wild young

member of the family of plebeian mountaineers-plebeian, because obliged to earn her own food and raiment every day; but by every natural gift and endowment she was a high-born and most noble patrician.

-Now Mr. Boar was as yet unmated. He therefore followed Miss G., and at once sought the young damsel's hand in marriage! Miss G. was gloriously beautiful in a crimson flush of indignation. She detested the touch of the rough and tedious lover, and fled his presence with the speed of the reindeer. But her parents, who were morbidly ambitious of gaining position in the Boar family, urged their daughter, and threatened her. They resolutely insisted upon the proffered marriage! She was a Christian Gazelle, and had early learned the lesson of obedience to parents. Amid tears of agony, and amid remonstrances, loaded to the muzzle with the ammunition of resistance, she outwardly consented.

-The marriage-day was forthwith fixed, and the silveredged invitation cards were duly distributed among the Boars of all that region. The hour arrived, the occasion was awfully solemnized by the Rt. Rev. Dr. Boar, of Boreas Chapel, corner Boarway and Fifth avenue. During the

impressive ceremony, the distinguished divine said, “What God hath joined together let no man put asunder," etc. And then all the editorial Boars of the city responded"Amen". -so mote it be-let God be true," etc. Now it should be recorded that the wedding was perfectly magnificent, superb, princely, a perfect jubilee. Wealthy Boars danced with the relatives of the beautiful bride, and the entire Gazelle family were delighted immeasurably. The bride's parents were especially charmed with the elegant attentions and pulmonary flattery of the magnificent Boars. Miss Gazelle, although transformed by the priestly wand into the important Mrs. Boar, was still wild and sad, but most beautiful in her deportment, and charming even in all her expressions of displeasure.

* * * Six months have fled forever, and with them has flown the connubial happiness of the wealthy Mr. Boar. The beautiful bride grew more and more cold toward her legal lord and "master." On the least approach of Mr. Boar, the blood of her heart would tremble with a chilling hatred, and its surface become frosted with increasing repugnance.

-And yet, notwithstanding all the ice and snow about her affections towards Mr. Boar, to another (a stranger in the forest,) she was as warm and genial as the sunbeams of midsummer. At length, the fact was too conspicuous for concealment she hated Mr. Boar and loved one who answered to the indwelling voice of her soul. The story is finished.

-What is to be done? Who can tell? Thirty thousand aristocratic Boars may grunt and grumble, and editorial Boars may quote Scripture and expound statute law but the divine laws of Mother Nature are immutabie, and no man can long resist their legitimate manifestations.

The question is, "Can Mrs. Boar (who is still interiorly Miss Gazelle, and unmated) depart for her mountain. home? Is the right of "Secession," in such a case, constitutional and best? Mr. Boar is hourly grunting with selfish agonies irrepressible, and all the wealthy Boars are grumbling with scandal unspeakable, and all the newspapers are selling the scandal to the lower ten millions-and yet, the question is: Will Nature ever sanction a legal marriage between a Gazelle and a Boar?

Origin of the Male and Female.

CLXXIII.—QUESTION: "I beg you will explain a seeming contradiction: Woman is the equal of man.' [Harmonia, vol. iv.] Elsewhere you have said: "The female sex is the result of an arrest of development; the nature of the male being characterized by the highest degree of fœtal development.' [Nat. Div. Rev., page 303, § 62.] If I understand you, the less developed is negative and inferior to the more perfect. How is this?"

ANSWER: The statement in Nat. Div. Rev. is one-sided and incomplete. The thought designed in that particular sentence is, that the female sex, like the opposite sex," is determined by an arrest of the straight-lined fœtal development. The different stages of foetal growth of either sex are the same up to a certain point, when the process is arrested, so to speak, which is immediately followed by a divergence of development either to the right or to the left of the uterus--eventuating in a female on the positive side, or in a male on the negative. We repeat, the line of foetal development is straight and continuous until the question of "sex" is to be decided. Then an "arrest" occurs, followed by a rapid divergence and some perturbation, and a discreet degree in organization is at once effected. This process does not impair the constitutional equality of man and woman.

Concerning the Six Human Loves.

CLXXIV.—QUESTION: "In the 4th vol. of the 'Harmonia' you describe the six human loves. Now I would ask, 'Can Fraternal or Filial Love be developed before Conjugal and Parental, or is it necessary that they succeed one another in their natural order?”

ANSWER: Love is the Life of Man. It is the eternal Spirit living in the form of the finite. Some anthropologists divide man's brain into special compartments. We do not; and yet there is truth in the theory that special organs in the cerebral substance are empowered with certain powers for the performance of definite missions in the life of the individual.

Man's energizing and sympathetic powers, yea, and all the glorious faculties of penetration and knowledge, are summed up in that much dishonored term, "Love." The subversion of love is hatred or repulsion. Its inversion is seen in selfishness, arctic rigidity, and misanthropy. And from its unrestrained but extreme energies, issue all violence, passion, vice, and consequent misery.

The six human loves grow naturally and progressively each out of the other. Their inter-dependence and polar attractiveness are mutual and beautiful. Their proper unfoldments are like the sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils, of the beauteous flower that the Great Spirit planted in your garden. And although it is possible to feel, and to be powerfully actuated by Fraternal and Filial Love in advance of the normal growth of their ancestral affections, yet it must be remarked, as very self-evident in practical life, that none of the Loves are truly wise and happy, unless educated and naturally unfolded by their appointed predecessors.

The Population Question.

CLXXV.-QUESTION: "Can you inform me what the rate of natural increase is on the American continent, or in the whole world?"

ANSWER: It has been carefully calculated (by Mr. Owen,) that human increase of population, when unrestrained by reason, will double itself every thirty-three and a third years. That it has done so, (without reckoning the increase from emigration,) in many parts of this continent, is certain. Then, if we suppose the present numerous checks to population-viz., want, war, vice, and miseryremoved by national reform, and if we assume the present population of the world at one thousand millions, we shall find the rate of increase as follows:

At the end of 100 years there will be 8,000 millions.

years.

And so on, multiplying by 8 for every additional hundred So that, in 500 years, there would be more than thirty thousand times as many as at present: and in 1,000 years upwards of a thousand million times as many human beings as at this moment: consequently, one single pair, if suffered to increase without check, would, in 1,000 years, increase to more than double the present population of the globe.

Amalgamation, and Human Hybrids.

CLXXVI. QUESTION: "I desire to ask you a few questions on the subject of Mongrels- concrete men.' Ist. Does not the amalgamation of Negro and White produce in all things, (physical stamina included, an inferior race? 2d. Is it possible to perfectly hybridize the two species? In the mulatto is not the union incomplete, or do the two bloods perfectly blend? Can a mulatto ever get above 'halfness'?"

ANSWER: There is a spiritul geometry in the forms of the constituents of blood. It is our impression that physiologists and chemists have the best things yet to discover in the life-secrets of the human heart. In this answer, we confine our remarks only to the great general facts underlying the visible fluid.