THE GENERAL SCHEME 



are bound up with it, of young romance and mature devotion, 

 hope and fear, selfishness, slyness and cruelty. To the fanatic, 

 sex is a snare of the devil, to a Casanova a heartless game ; 

 to Stephen Dedalus as a young man it was torment ; to some 

 happier lad, it is a rosy dream. All these have much to gain 

 by seeing it also, with the biologist, as part of the inevitable 

 process of animal life. To understand is not to demean our- 

 selves, nor to rob the human heart of virtue and the love of 

 beauty. 



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