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often the stimulus to ambition the source from 

 which he builds his hopes for the future. It holds 

 before him as the goal to reach, the prize to strive for, 

 the image that to him is graced with the beauty of an 

 angel and the virtues of a saint. "To him there was 

 but one beloved face on earth, and that was shining 

 on him." Very often this early love languishes and 

 dies without response and even without revealment; 

 but if his dream lasts long enough, and the awaken- 

 ing be not too rude, his whole life may bear its in- 

 fluence for good. Other and better placed affections 

 may come in later life ; but the impress made by 

 life's first emotion, often is never quite effaced. 



Sir Henry Maudsley says : " If we were to go on to 

 follow the development of the sexual instinct to its 

 highest reach, we should not fail to discover a great 

 range of operation ; for we might trace its influence 

 in the highest feelings of mankind, social, moral and 

 religious. With the deprivation of sexual feeling 

 goes the mental growth and energy which it inspires, 

 directly, or indirectly. How much that is it would be 

 hard to say ; but were man deprived of the instinct 

 and of all that mentally springs from it, it is probable 

 that most of the poetry, and perhaps all the moral 

 feeling, would be cut out of his life." (The Physiology 

 of Mind, p. 372.) The subject matter of all romances, 

 of nearly all the dramas of real life, as well as those 



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