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higher than do our current social, poHtical, and economic doctrines 

 and endeavours, or our current scientific labours either. All these, 

 indeed, derive more of their energies from sex-sources than they 

 reaHse; yet all alike need these re-moralised, if they are to reahse 

 their best aspirations and their achievements. Yet conversely, too, 

 our vital urge needs support from all that psychology, biology, and 

 social science can discover, and all that etho-policy can realise. And 

 in face of appeals from our cities, at once so inspiring and so piteous 

 — as, for type-instance, that of Jane Addams, that virtual, since 

 true and great, "Abbess of Chicago", in her book of The Spirit of 

 Youth on the City Streets — all the interpretations and forecasts that 

 the sciences can offer, all the practical appeals and efforts that 

 wisdom can guide, are alike urgently needed ; and these synthetised 

 in thought and mobilised into action. The old ideals thus retain high 

 values; and though these be now more or less isolated, or cloistered 

 — as of Olympus or Parnassus, Eleusis and Delphi, for the scholar; 

 of Zion for Israel; Benares for Hinduism; Samath for Buddhism; 

 and Jerusalem, Rome, or Geneva for Christian groupings; or Mecca 

 for Islam, etc. — their pilgrimages, continued from of old to this day, 

 show that these ancient springs are still unexhausted. So, too, 

 mediaeval Benedictines and Renaissance Jesuits (though each in 

 their own way coming abreast of science more than its lay votaries 

 generally notice) are above all still drawing inspiration from their 

 mounts of origin, Cassino and Montmartre. Indeed, our romantic 

 poets and composers often also find their Helicon, be this from 

 Garde Joyeuse or Montsalvat. 



Yet science must work onwards in its own ways, by turns obser- 

 vant and interpretative : so here we have to ask, first of all, what 

 biology and its associated psychology can offer. As evolutionists, 

 and of sex, we must begin then on the animal level: so best take 

 frankly one of its most simple and familiar types — say, for choice, 

 the common and domestic swine — with whom the prodigal, whether 

 of self- or sex-hunger, comes to be appropriately associated. The sow, 

 then, has her insistent passion of sex allayed, say, indeed, so far 

 sublimated, by her simple and ample maternity: while for active 

 passion, even to combativeness, what more vivid type than the 

 boar? She has affection, he, conspicuously, has courage: so here 

 appear already the two-sexed meaning of the Latin virtus ; and as 

 clear fundamentals of the respective sex-morals. Yet on higher 

 levels affection normally increases in the male ; so towards truer and 

 fuller partnership ; whence monogamy, and this with fuller and with 

 more active parenthood : and these we see in Nature, often to varied 

 and admirable perfection, as in so many birds and mammals. 

 Among these, too, a higher progress is discernible. Feminine affec- 

 tion comes to be reinforced by courage ; and this not only to defence 

 of young, but also as monogamy evolves, to purity, with loyalty to 



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