Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1862

Marginal notations penciled on pages 88, 89 of William Ernest Hocking, The Coming World Civilization (New York: Harper & Bros., 1956)

     Love, subjective, is sentiment. When objectified, it is service. To be enduring (real) and to become universal (divine), it must be contractual. The subjective is limited and admits servitude. The contractual can be universal and realize equality in its creativity. When love is contractual — reciprocal — it springs from both self-regarding and from other-regarding.