The Cultured Love

The natural man's love becomes through culture a commandment. But as commandment it belongs to Man as such. not to me; it is my essence, about which much ado is made. not my property. Man, i.e. humanity, presents that demand to me; love is demanded, it is my duty. Instead, therefore, of being really won for me, it has been won for the generality, Man, as his property or peculiarity: "it becomes man, every man, to love; love is the duty and calling of man," etc.