Love

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Thus are we put in training for a love which knows not sex nor person nor partiality but which seeks virtue and wisdom everywhere to the end of increasing virtue and wisdom.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-Ralph Waldo Emerson Love</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Love (1841) is an essay in which Emerson attempts to explain the love between two people and how it evolves with time and age. According to Emerson youthful lovers feel a passionate longing and devotion to their beloved but as they give themselves totally to each other he writes both are changed with new perceptions new and keener purposes and a religious solemnity. Ultimately he argued that experience leads to an appreciation of and desire for divine love.</span></p>