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ness that goes with them. Upon this point I know there is great dif- 

 ference of opinion among those who have a right to speak. But, to 

 those who do see the cogency of the evidences of modern physiology 

 and modern psychology in this direction, it is a very serious thing to 

 consider that not only the earth itself and all that beautiful face of 

 Nature we see, but also the living things upon it, and all the conscious- 

 ness of men, and the ideas of society, which have grown up upon the 

 surface, must come to an end. We who hold that belief must just 

 face the fact and make the best of it ; and I think we are helped in 

 this by the words of that Jew philosopher who was himself a worthy 

 crown to the splendid achievements of his race in the cause of prog- 

 ress during the middle ages, Benedict Spinoza. He said, " The free- 

 man thinks of nothing so little as of death, and his contemplation is not 

 of death but of life." Our interest, it seems to me, lies with so much 

 of the past as may serve to guide our actions in the present, and to 

 intensify our pious allegiance to the fathers who have gone before us, 

 and the brethren who are with us ; and our interest lies with so much 

 of the future as we may hope will be a2Dpreciably affected by our good 

 actions now. Beyond that, as it seems to me, we do not know, and 

 we ought not to cai-e. Do I seem to say, " Let us eat and drink, for 

 to-morrow we die ? " Far from it ; on the contrary, I say, " Let us take 

 hands and help, for this day we are alive together." Fortnightly 

 Review. 



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SEXUAL CEKEBRATION. 



By ELY VAN DE WARKER, M. D. 



BY sexual cerebration is meant the existence of sex in the emo- 

 tional and ideo-motor psychical nature of women and men, from 

 which originate jijcr se emotions and states of consciousness which dis- 

 tinguish and give character to the intellection of the sexes. It is sex 

 in mental, as distinguished from sex in physical development. It is 

 to mental operations what the prism is to light a medium of refrac- 

 tion ; a bending, as it were, of the axis of thought. 



Having postulated that certain differences exist mentally between 

 the sexes, is it possible to determine the extent and nature of the dif- 

 ference ? Is it also possible to trace this difference to a sexual factor ? 

 It is evident that, if we can reach the truth, approximately, in the first 

 question, the establishment of the second is easy. 



There appears to me but one way of studying this question. The 

 old speculative method of investigating metaphysical questions must 

 be abandoned. We must grapple with this psychological problem 

 from a few fixed points ; like points of triangulation, to measure dis- 

 tances which otherwise may remain unknown. We must reason from 



