Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1918 — “LOVE THAT SUBDUES EARTH" [ARTICLE]

“LOVE THAT SUBDUES EARTH"

Robert G. Ingersoll's Beautiful Trib- * ute to Women Has Been Surpassed by Few Writers. It takes a hundred men to make an encampment, but one woman can make a home. I not only admire woman as the most beautiful object ever created, but I . reverence her .as the redeeming glory of humanity, the sanctuary of all the virtues, the pledge Of all perfect qualities of heart and. head. It is not just nor right to lay the sins of .men ,at the feet of women. It is because women are so much better than men that their faults are Cbnsldered greater. A man’s desire is the foundation of his love, but awomah’s desire is bom of her love. The one thing in this world that Is constant, the one peak that rises above all clouds, the one window in which the light forever bums, the one star that darkness cannot quench, is woman’s love. It rises to the greatest heights, it sinks to the lowest depths. It forgives the most cruel injuries. It is perennialof. life and grows in every climate. Neither coldness nor neglect, harshness nor cruelty, can extinguish it. A woman’s love is the perfume of the heart. This Is the real love that subdues the earth the love that has wrought all miracles of art that gives us music all the way from the cradle song to the grand closing symphony that bears the soul away on wings of fire. A love that is greater than power, sweeter than life and stronger than death—Robert G. Ingersoll.