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LOVE’S COMING-OF-AGE
A SERIES OF PAPERS
ON
THE RELATIONS OF THE SEXES

BY

EDWARD CARPENTER

Author of “Towards Democracy,” “England’s Ideal,” Etc.

CHICAGO

STOCKHAM PUBLISHING CO.

1902

[The little god of Love is generally represented as a child; and rightly, perhaps, considering the erratic character of his ways among the human race. There are signs, however, of a new order in the relations of the Sexes; and the following papers are, among other things, an attempt to indicate the inner laws which, rather than the outer, may guide Love when—some day—he shall have come to his full estate.]