Aspects Of Love
Love the Unknown. By Dallas Kenmare. Johnson. 243 PP.
The confusion of sex with love, the assumption that love is nothing but sex, is responsible, Miss Kenmare believes, for most of the motal disasters which today threaten the whole fabric of civilisation. The Profumo scandal, the Vassal! case, the trial of Stephen Ward are all symptoms of the morall corruption which follows inevitably from an inadequate view of love.
In “Love the Unknown” the author draws attention to neglected aspects of love and
pleads for a sacramental, creative conception of love. This is the only power which can effect the redemption of mankind. The highest individual love must come through the fusion of the spiritual and physical if it is to lead to an appreciation of love as the great law of life. Miss Kenmare has strong convictions and is able to illuminate her thesis from wide reading. She discusses D. H. Lawrence’s writings with keen discernment, but quotations of all kinds are so numerous that they tend to distract attention from the argument
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31030, 9 April 1966, Page 4
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