Excerpt from Heart and Soul There are various kinds and degrees of feeling that go under the name of love and nothing in life is more interesting or more vitally important to study and understand. But in this preliminary summary it is enough to signal its existence as one Of the factors in the problem of life. It may be just as well to note, in passing, that mothers are to be found whose love for their chil dren is not so completely unselfish. Mothers are to be found who care very little about their chil dren. Mothers are to be found who regard chil dren as a nuisance and a disadvantage and prefer to be without them. That will be found to be one Of the curious side-lights Of the problem when time comes to discuss it. It does not alter the fact, however, that love exists, that the true mother's love of her child is the most complete and universal illustration Of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.