{"product_id":"2940014040570","title":"FALLING IN LOVE","description":"PREFACE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome people complain that science is dry. That is, of course, a matter\u003cbr\u003eof taste. For my own part, I like my science and my champagne as dry as\u003cbr\u003eI can get them. But the public thinks otherwise. So I have ventured to\u003cbr\u003esweeten accompanying samples as far as possible to suit the demand, and\u003cbr\u003etrust they will meet with the approbation of consumers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf the specimens here selected for exhibition, my title piece originally\u003cbr\u003eappeared in the _Fortnightly Review_: 'Honey Dew' and 'The First Potter'\u003cbr\u003ewere contributions to _Longman's Magazine_: and all the rest found\u003cbr\u003efriendly shelter between the familiar yellow covers of the good old\u003cbr\u003e_Cornhill_. My thanks are due to the proprietors and editors of those\u003cbr\u003evarious periodicals for kind permission to reproduce them here.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eG.A.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE NOOK, DORKING:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_September_, 1889.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                         PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFALLING IN LOVE             1\u003cbr\u003eRIGHT AND LEFT             18\u003cbr\u003eEVOLUTION                  31\u003cbr\u003eSTRICTLY INCOG.            50\u003cbr\u003eSEVEN-YEAR SLEEPERS        72\u003cbr\u003eA FOSSIL CONTINENT         88\u003cbr\u003eA VERY OLD MASTER         106\u003cbr\u003eBRITISH AND FOREIGN       123\u003cbr\u003eTHUNDERBOLTS              137\u003cbr\u003eHONEY-DEW                 159\u003cbr\u003eTHE MILK IN THE COCO-NUT  176\u003cbr\u003eFOOD AND FEEDING          193\u003cbr\u003eDE BANANA                 216\u003cbr\u003eGO TO THE ANT             233\u003cbr\u003eBIG ANIMALS               251\u003cbr\u003eFOSSIL FOOD               271\u003cbr\u003eOGBURY BARROWS            287\u003cbr\u003eFISH OUT OF WATER         302\u003cbr\u003eTHE FIRST POTTER          316\u003cbr\u003eTHE RECIPE FOR GENIUS     328\u003cbr\u003eDESERT SANDS              341\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFALLING IN LOVE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn ancient and famous human institution is in pressing danger. Sir\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Campbell has set his face against the time-honoured practice of\u003cbr\u003eFalling in Love. Parents innumerable, it is true, have set their faces\u003cbr\u003eagainst it already from immemorial antiquity; but then they only\u003cbr\u003eattacked the particular instance, without venturing to impugn the\u003cbr\u003einstitution itself on general principles. An old Indian administrator,\u003cbr\u003ehowever, goes to work in all things on a different pattern. He would\u003cbr\u003ealways like to regulate human life generally as a department of the\u003cbr\u003eIndia Office; and so Sir George Campbell would fain have husbands and\u003cbr\u003ewives selected for one another (perhaps on Dr. Johnson's principle, by\u003cbr\u003ethe Lord Chancellor) with a view to the future development of the race,\u003cbr\u003ein the process which he not very felicitously or elegantly describes as\u003cbr\u003e'man-breeding.' 'Probably,' he says, as reported in _Nature_, 'we have\u003cbr\u003eenough physiological knowledge to effect a vast improvement in the\u003cbr\u003epairing of individuals of the same or allied races if we could only\u003cbr\u003eapply that knowledge to make fitting marriages, instead of giving way to\u003cbr\u003efoolish ideas about love and the tastes of young people, whom we can\u003cbr\u003ehardly trust to choose their own bonnets, much less to choose in a\u003cbr\u003egraver matter in which they are most likely to be influenced by\u003cbr\u003efrivolous prejudices.' He wants us, in other words, to discard the\u003cbr\u003edeep-seated inner physiological promptings of inherited instinct, and to\u003cbr\u003esubstitute for them some calm and dispassionate but artificial\u003cbr\u003eselection of a fitting partner as the father or mother of future\u003cbr\u003egenerations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow this is of course a serious subject, and it ought to be treated\u003cbr\u003eseriously and reverently. But, it seems to me, Sir George Campbell's\u003cbr\u003econclusion is exactly the opposite one from the conclusion now being\u003cbr\u003eforced upon men of science by a study of the biological and\u003cbr\u003epsychological elements in this very complex problem of heredity. So far\u003cbr\u003efrom considering love as a 'foolish idea,' opposed to the best interests\u003cbr\u003eof the race, I believe most competent physiologists and psychologists,\u003cbr\u003eespecially those of the modern evolutionary school, would regard it\u003cbr\u003erather as an essentially beneficent and conservative instinct developed\u003cbr\u003eand maintained in us by natural causes, for the very purpose of insuring\u003cbr\u003ejust those precise advantages and improvements which Sir George Campbell\u003cbr\u003ethinks he could himself effect by a conscious and deliberate process of\u003cbr\u003eselection. More than that, I believe, for my own part (and I feel sure\u003cbr\u003emost evolutionists would cordially agree with me), that this beneficent\u003cbr\u003einherited instinct of Falling in Love effects the object it has in view\u003cbr\u003efar more admirably, subtly, and satisfactorily, on the average of\u003cbr\u003einstances, than any clumsy human selective substitute could possibly\u003cbr\u003eeffect it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn short, my doctrine is simply the old-fashioned and confiding belief\u003cbr\u003ethat marriages are made in heaven: with the further corollary that\u003cbr\u003eheaven manages them, one time with another, a great deal better than Sir\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Campbell.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175962198256,"sku":"2940014040570","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014040570_p0.jpg?v=1763599535","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014040570","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}