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unselfishness and serviceableness and so forth — which 

 (though perhaps in varying proportions) are by common 

 consent accepted as the highest : and further that 

 the greater the attempt to deepen and broaden these, 

 to increase their mental intensity and to widen their 

 range and association, the more they tend to emerge 

 into something increasingly unitary, in which it is 

 seen that honesty is also beautiful and useful, that 

 intellectual satisfaction is in the long run serviceable 

 to the community, that unselfishness to be eflFective re- 

 quires thought and will besides mere altruistic emotion, 

 that one of the greatest aids to any genuine righteous- 

 ness is an aesthetic love of beautiful things that prevents 

 our doing ugly things, and so ad infinitum. 



The proper way, then, to build the sex instinct 

 into the mental S)rstem is not to have its stimulation 

 cause a merely physiological and uninhibited desire 

 for its gratification, nor to bring about a forcible 

 repression and an attempt to break connection between 

 it and the other parts of the mind. 



The desirable method is to have free connection 

 between it and the dominant ideas, so that its stimula- 

 tion brings about a stimulation of them too. This 

 leads, as a matter of experience, to the incorporation 

 of the sexual emotion in the dominant ideas, or we 

 had better say an interpenetration of one with the 

 other, so that the sexual emotion is no longer simply 

 sexual emotion, but is become part of something very 

 much larger and very much better. Let the great 



