EMMANUEL BERL | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

1924. From the Author's Preface: To my mind, the word-love-indicates all those feelings presented to consciousness which are connected with external and personal objects. It signifies religious feeling, friendship, patriotism-in so far as a nation is a person-as well as the relation between a man and a woman. It is also contrasted with vaguer feelings whose cause we attributed to ourselves or to impersonal objects: such as the joy occasioned by fine weather or excellent health, the boredom resultant from a steady downpour of rain or from bodily infirmity, etc. My book came into being because of the need I felt to coordinate a series of experiences.