conviction that the Empire of Love is boundless and limitless;
that it permeates and glorifies the vast ocean of infinity! On the
strong, swift tide of this shoreless ocean, the lover floats, secure,
serene and confident, on his voyage toward destiny's most distant port.

The following letter from Fillmore Flagg to Fern Fenwick, will serve in
some measure to illustrate the power of love to change, expand, energize
and spiritualize the entire character of the lover: to purify and
strengthen the moral disposition of our hero, to eliminate from it all
tendency to selfishness; to endow him with a broader wisdom, with higher
and nobler aspirations of life; to fit him more perfectly to carry
forward his great work for humanity at Solaris Farm.

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"My Darling Fern: Noblest, purest and most beautiful of women! Like the
rose to the sunlight, like the needle to the pole, my heart turns in
adoration to you. My own true love! My peerless one! My guiding star in
love's azure sky! My soul swells and sings with its full tide of joy, as
willing fingers attempt to put in words the thoughts born of my great
love for you. What miracle have you wrought for me, my precious one,
that I am so happy? The earth, the sky, the verdant woods, the grand
mountains, the green meadows, the shady nooks, the babbling brooks;--all
thrill my innermost being with a thousand new charms! The bees, the
birds, the flowers and trees as they bend or sigh to the passing breeze;
the solemn stillness of majestic night; the deep blue sea, overarched by
nature's matchless crown of diamonds, a countless multitude of brilliant
stars, in the silvery moonlight of love--how eloquent their song! All
things in nature speak to me; they bless you for loving me! In the halo
of that blessing, as I think of you, I am transfigured by a newly-born
ecstacy! To breathe, to exist, is to realize the superlative degree of
my exquisite happiness! Hidden away from the clouds and storms of life,
by the golden mist which veils the measureless sea of love, infinite
love, I sail serene and confident upon its heaving tide. Gently rocked
by the lapping lullaby of the rythmical waves of paradise, I fearlessly
float. I care not for time nor tide, nor distant port of a future
destiny! Entranced by the music of love's beautiful sea, I dream love's
dream alone with myself, the outer world shut away--swallowed up by the
overwhelming tide of my sweet and blis