Excerpt from Romantic Love and Personal Beauty, Vol. 2 of 2: Their Development, Casual Relations, Historic and National Peculiarities
Romantic Love - commonly considered immutable - not only displays countless individual variations in regard to duration and degrees of intensity, but has a sort of "local colour" in each country; or, to keep up our old metaphor, a varying clang-tint, depending on the greater or less prominence of certain "overtones."
To describe all these varieties of Love would require a separate volume. And since all the most interesting forms of the romantic passion are to be met with in France, Italy, Spain, Germany, England, and America, it will suffice to briefly characterise Love in those countries.
French Love
As literary luck would have it, the subject of French Love follows naturally upon the subject of the last chapter, the Remedia Amoris.
The French are too clever a nation to leave to individual effort the difficult task of curing the mind of such an obstinate thing as Love.
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