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sexual question are the principal factors which drive the indi- 

 viduals in the vortex of a continuous competition. 



This manifestation creates in the individuals the feeling of 

 rivalry, because the scope of the emotional desire to obtain the 

 required object is always confronted by opposition. Now, though 

 the main object for anorganic being, from the standpoint of evolu- 

 tion, is the individual from the opposite sex (male or female), the 

 competitive being is logically placed between two different situa- 

 tions it stands between the rival and the object. It has to face 

 them objectively, both at the same time. In order to gain the 

 object it has to meet rivalry, and in order to meet rivalry it has 

 to defeat its influence before it can gain the object; furthermore, 

 in order to gain the object it has to charm it and make thereby a 

 subject. 



Hence, this creates in the competitive individual the motives 

 and feelings of rivalry and challenge to meet successfully the 

 opponent; on the other side, it creates the principles of charm 

 and appeal to conquer the object. Now, in order to effect a suc- 

 cessful demonstration the competitive being is compelled to adopt 

 certain forms of gesture poses or sounds, which emphatically 

 express the purpose of the prevailing motive. 



For instance, it is a known fact that two cats will seldom 

 meet on the fence in a peaceful way their posing attitudes will 

 indicate that such an event will not pass without any hair-raising 

 result. Similar manifestations can also be observed among the 

 chicken crew, some of them feeling inclined to engage in a little 

 scrap about nothing. But these are harmless manifestations in 

 comparison with the animals living in the wilderness, which have 

 to meet the answer of a merciless bloody competition. 



The demonstrative expression of rivalry is merely an address 

 to the other and indicates challenge ; the demonstrative expression 

 of appeal and charm is also an address directed to the object, sig- 

 nifying benevolence and friendship. The furious roaring of the 

 male lion in the desert is an address of rivalry in order to chal- 

 lenge. The cackling of a hen, having just laid an egg, is an 

 address to members of the crew and also a proclamation that she 

 has fulfilled an important duty. The snarl and grumbling of a dog 

 over a bone is a warning addressed to the other attempting to 

 share with him. 



