tion that
no person has any right, or indeed any power, to control the emotions and
actions of another person. If our sun of love stands still at midday,
according to Ellen Key's phrase, that is a miracle to be greeted with awe
and gratitude, and by no means a right to be demanded. The claim of
jealousy falls with the claim of conjugal rights.

It is quite possible, Bloch remarks (_The Sexual Life of Our
Time_, Ch. X), to love more than one person at the same time,
with nearly equal tenderness, and to be honestly able to assure
each of the passion felt for her or him. Bloch adds that the vast
psychic differentiation involved by modern civilization increases
the possibility of this double love, for it is difficult for
anyone to find his complement in a single person, and that this
applies to women as well as to men.

Georg Hirth likewise points out (_Wege zur Heimat_, pp. 543-552)
that it is important to remember that women, as well as men, can
love two persons at the same time. Men flatter themselves, he
remarks, with the prejudice that the female heart, or rather
brain, can only hold one man at a time, and that if there is a
second man it is by a kind of prostitution. Nearly all erotic
writers, poets, and novelists, even physicians and psychologists,
belong to this class, he says; they look on a woman as property,
and of course two men cannot "possess" a woman. (Regarding
novelists, however, the remark may be interpolated that there are
many exceptions, and Thomas Hardy, for instance, frequently
represents a woman as more or less in love with two men at the
same time.) As against this desire to depreciate women's psychic
capacity, Hirth maintains that a woman is not necessarily obliged
to be untrue to one man because she has conceived a passion for
another man. "Today," Hirth truly declares, "only love and
justice can count as honorable motives in marriage. The modern
man accords to the beloved wife and life-companion the same
freedom which he himself took before marriage, and perhaps still
takes in marriage. If she makes no use of it, as is to be
hoped--so much the better! But let there be no lies, no
deception; the indispensable foundation of modern marriage is
boundless sincerity and friendship, the deepest trust,
affectionate devotion, and consideration. This is the best
safeguard a