PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE 



sketched in, seem to represent a type elevated in nature 

 by the simplicity of organs and it means: that the sexes 

 in animals who are without copulation either profound 

 or superficial, tend, as in fish, to remain without differ- 

 ence; that all other modes of copulation are attributed 

 exclusively to inferior species; that hermaphrodism was 

 but a trial limited to a category of creatures lacking 

 everything not exclusively designed for the process of 

 reproduction; that the absence of sex characterizes only 

 the earliest forms of life. 



If one considers no longer the mode of copulation 

 but the apparatus itself, with the male part, penis, and 

 the female part, vagina, one sees clearly that these 

 extremely particular organs are hardly found well de- 

 signed save in two great branchings where the intelligence 

 is most developed: mammifera and the arthropodes. 

 There might be, perhaps, a certain correlation between 

 complete and profound copulation and the development 

 of the brain. 



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