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tion. It is another phase of subdivision and reassocia- 

 tion applied to functional attributes. 



The peculiar qualities of the female parent are 

 always the first ones to be drafted by evolution into the 

 service of the racial germ plasma; for her associations 

 with the new life, by virtue of those qualities, are 

 necessarily more intimate, her gifts more substantial 

 and of more immediate constructive value than those 

 of the male. 



The male qualities are secondary, or supplementary 

 in character, although not necessarily of secondary 

 value. Hence the smaller size of the male and the 

 wider range of his activities was from the very outset 

 utilized in finding the female, and in conveying its 

 germ plasma to its destination. For, obviously, this is 

 the most economic way of bringing the two kinds of 

 germ plasma into cooperative relations. 



The more subtle powers of the male, as an adminis- 

 trator of foreign affairs; or as a vagabond explorer, 

 and knightly ambassador to an outer world far beyond 

 the reach of female activities, was not primarily avail- 

 able as an asset to the new life. These potential powers 

 of the male were drafted into the service of life at com- 

 paratively late periods in organic evolution, after the 

 peculiar structures and properties of the masculine 

 body had found the cooperative ways better to direct 

 his guardian and exploratory activities. 



Thus, in the main, femaleness sets apart and con- 

 serves a fraction of her germinal estates; provides for 

 them quick assets in adequate amounts out of her 

 own bodily surplus; makes the ova safe depositaries 

 for these endowments, and then secretly advertises 

 their location. Maleness answers the advertisement, 



