"That is religion, is it not?" she asked, laughingly.
"No; a higher sentiment than religion is love."
"Of that there are many kinds."
"There is but one kind," he answered. "Other feelings may receive that name, but they are base alloys of the pure sentiment."
"And what is this perfect love of which you seem to know so much?"
"It is the irresistible union of two similar natures."
"Why irresistible?" Marion asked.
"Because all organism is a union of limitless atoms, which are brought together out of chaos by the attraction of similarity."
"That is a novel theory, but what has it to do with love?" she questioned.
"Love is the idealization of that theory. Man and woman are the most perfect blending of the atoms, and love is the transcendent union of their two natures."