Vasily Vasilyevich Rozanov. Family question in Russia (№ 292498)

Remember bacon and his aphorism: "to Command nature only by obeying her"... One love tames the passions and preobladaet the mighty lion into a docile lamb. Passion (sex) is the force, absolutely irresistible, and there's only one other force that copes with it: the power of love. Remember the "song of songs":
Strong as death, love,
Scary as hell.
Not with such strength to get skinny and lethargic public law requirements. Love tears them like a tiger a lamb, as a lion, a crowd of hyenas who crosses his path...
For her beloved husband the wife will go into the fire, and for the children of a loved one she will swim across rivers, and oceans; and beloved wife again, her husband will undergo all the humiliation in the service, not tired in any work does not end in the veins. Yeah, so here's the ideal: in a family where the members would love each other. Just give me a loving family, and I come from this cell will build you an eternal social building. Built our and all European family to love? Alas, <...> disassemble the ideal, calling us, and you will see that our family is built on a different principle - debt. Oh, I don't about the height of this principle, they say, is not perfect in this dispute; I am talking about strength. Because after all, we don't build dreams, and life: and in vain to put the train on a bridge built from a dream in the dream material! "We should", "should I", "you should". Well, five years "I have to" ten years "I have"...