THE NATURAL 



gance, the wild shots, the impractical, merely because in 

 him occurs the new up-jut, the new bathing of the cere- 

 bral tissues hi the residuum, in la mousse of the life sap. 



Or, as I am certainly neither writing an anti-feminist 

 tract, nor claiming disproportionate privilege for the 

 spermatozoide, for the sake of symmetry ascribe a cog- 

 nate role to the ovule, though I can hardly be expected 

 to introspect it. A flood is as bad as a famine; the 

 ovular bath could still account for the refreshment of 

 the female mind, and the recharging, regracing of its 

 "traditional aptitudes;" where one woman appears to 

 benefit by an alluvial clarifying, ten dozen appear to be 

 swamped. 



" Postulating that the cerebral fluid tried all sorts of 

 ! experiments, and, striking matter, forced it into all sorts 

 of forms, by gushes; we have admittedly in insect life a 

 female predominance; in t>ird, mammal and human, at 

 least an increasing male prominence. And these four 

 important branches of "the fan" may be differentiated 

 according to their apparent chief desire, or source of 

 choosing their species. 



Insect, utility; bird, flight; mammal, muscular splen- 

 dour; man, experiment. 



The insect representing the female, and utility; the 

 need of heat being present, the insect chooses to solve 

 the problem by hibernation, i.e., a sort of negation of 

 action. The bird wanting continuous freedom, feathers 

 itself. Desire for decoration appears in all the branches, 

 man exteriorizing it most. The bat's secret appears to 

 be that he is not the bird-mammal, but the mammal- 

 insect: economy of tissue, hibernation. The female prin- 

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