A Possibility 115 



SUMMARY 



1. If folds become ovaries, where sex products generate, 

 each organism has enclosed ovaries that open inward and 

 exposed ovaries that open outward. If both of these 

 break through the envelope, forms of life arise with two 

 sexes, as in the case of some plants. If one remains 

 enclosed, it becomes, in its struggle for freedom, a seat 

 of consciousness with all the phenomena that sex irritation 

 can create. This, in its primary form, is not memory and 

 will, but visualization a struggle to picture the comple- 

 mentary self with which its isolated position prevents it 

 from blending. 



2. A brain is thus an enclosed ovary with its contents of 

 undifferentiated cells put to a new use. The enclosed ovary 

 is of the opposite sex to the exposed ovary, and hence 

 beings manifest mentally the characteristics of the opposite 

 sex from what they are physically. 



3. This is one possibility. The same results follow if each 

 of the two nuclei which come together in fertilization 

 keeps its independent life but unites to create the motor 

 organs on which development and adjustment depend. One 

 nucleus becomes enclosed, and in its development creates 

 the spinal cord and brain. 



4. A third possibility is that the union of the male and 

 female nuclei forms a neutral base from which there is a 

 complementary differentiation. In the one direction the 

 cells tend to become anabolic and in the other katabolic. 

 The organism is male or female, as the anabolic or kata- 

 bolic cells dominate in growth and enclose their weaker 



