Crossword-Solution: ESSENTIA 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Human love is a subjective thing—the essence itself of man, as that great thinker Spinoza the philosopher says—_ipsa hominis essentia_—it is joy accompanied by an idea which we project against any suitable object in the line of our vision, just as the rainbow iris is projected against an oak, ash, or elm tree indifferently.

Haec autem reluctantia subjectiva mentitur, ut plurimum, repugnantiam aliquam objectivam, et incautos facile fallit, limitibus, quibus mens humana circumscribitur, pro iis habitis, quibus ipsa rerum essentia continetur.

Ramundi Lulli speculum alchimiæ.-- Ejusdem liber de quinta essentia.-- Ejusdem lapidarius, scilicet de gemmis.-- Joh.

Alchimica; videlicet tres tractatus alchimici, Volvi lapidem, &c.-- De quinta essentia Mercurii.-- Secretum secretorum Pleri philosophi.

Here the danger is irremovable from the physical _essentia_ of the marriage itself, and in such a case, no matter how high the personal qualities of the man who may, for instance, have been infected by accident in the course of his duty as a doctor, even childless marriage other than the _mariage blanc_ must be, at any rate, postponed until the disease has been cured.