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the animals are not less important than the 

 resemblances, and as man has come to him- 

 self the complex attraction which we call 

 love has been in proportion heightened and 

 deepened and sublimed. As man emerged 

 a rational creature in some measure conscious 

 of his instincts and his aims, capable of con- 

 trolled conduct as a social person, all things 

 became new, including love. While the deep 

 organic impulse remains as a legacy from a 

 remote past, while the elements of physical 

 fondness and aesthetic attraction are not lost 

 without impoverishment, while practical part- 

 nership remains all but indispensable, there 

 are undoubtedly new elements, notably of 

 intellectual and ethical sympathy, and the 

 self-consciousness of it all which is expressed 

 in the sentiment of love. 



At the same time it cannot but seem either 

 strangely unobservant or pharisaic when men 

 or women resent any analogy between animal 

 love-making and their own. We may trade 

 with our legacy, but we cannot refuse it, and 

 it is not inconsistent with recognising human 

 love as a new synthesis to observe that strands, 

 both coarse and fine, which are prominent in 

 lower forms of life have been caught up and 

 utilised in man. From another point of view, 

 this also should be said, that it is well for us 

 to take admiring knowledge of the artistic 

 character of many animal love-makings, for 

 they put man's often too rough-and-ready 

 manners to utter shame. 



