Excerpt from Love Vs. Marriage, Vol. 1 Although conjugal harmony always exists for nature as well as for man in some parts of the earth, it is chiefly in the month of May that beings enter into love in our climates. The sun, which is its first moving spring, is toward the mid dle of this month at twelve degrees from the equator, and at about thirty-six degrees from us, and the moon at twelve de grees south, which puts between these two stars a distance equal to the half of the torrid zone. We then receive a part of its influence as we receive it entire, when toward the end of June, the sun in the summer solstice, and the moon in the winter sol stice, embrace the whole space enclosed between the tropics. N ot only does the sun in summer dilate our atmosphere, but he must exert the same power on the sea. If heated fluids rise in a thermometer, ocean must rise in its basin and increase its curve. If a rod of iron grows longer when heated, thus the crust of the terrestrial hemisphere, filled with minerals, must dilate, and the flow of the waters be strongest toward the Opposite hemisphere. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.