344 THE BIOCOSMOS PARTICULARIZED. 



sis. Such is this deep-seated impulse of sex : 

 it compels the individual as animal to return 

 upon his forced or fated origin, and to re- 

 originate himself in a new being; thus he 

 rounds himself out to a complete whole and is 

 the genus, taking up into himself his own pre- 

 supposition, prescribing his own prescription. 

 It is a symmetrical fact with Nature that the 

 youth, having gotten his growth and reached 

 the age of puberty that is, having passed 

 from his time of Assimilation to that of Gen- 

 eration also begins to turn against the trans- 

 mitted order in the Family and even in the 

 State; he kicks against the prescribed limits 

 environing him on every side; he will chal- 

 lenge, if he does not assail, the whole institu- 

 tional world in which he was born. He will 

 not be satisfied till he have a hand in regulat- 

 ing the regulations which regulate him; he 

 must at least help make the law which he 

 obeys; he must become self -legislative not 

 only morally but also institutionally, if he is 

 to escape from his negative, anarchic condi- 

 tion. The institutions of our country make 

 the youth legally self-governing at his major- 

 ity, when he has attained the maturity of Na- 

 ture and is questioning the traditional order 

 imposed upon him, when even his organism 

 is challenging its own origin and seeks to be 

 re-born out of itself in a new birth. 



