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with sex-relations. Of what then ? Of Love itself, of 

 Love as Love, of Love as Life, of Love as Humanity, 

 of Love as the pure and undefiled fountain of all that 

 is eternal in the world. In the long stillness which 

 follows the crisis of Maternity, witnessed only by the 

 new and helpless life which is at once the last expres- 

 sion of the older function and the unconscious vehicle 

 of the new, Humanity is born. By an alchemy which 

 remains, and must ever remain, the secret of Nature, 

 the physiological forces give place to those higher 

 principles of sympathy, solicitude, and affection which 

 from this time onwards are to change the course of 

 Evolution and determine a diviner destiny for a 

 Human Race : 



" Earth's insufficiency 

 Here grows to event; 

 The indescribable 

 Here it is done ; 

 The woman-soul leadeth us 

 Upward and on." 1 



So stupendous is this transition that the mere possi- 

 bility staggers us. Separated by the whole diameter 

 of conscious intelligence and will, what possible affin- 

 ities can exist between the Reproductive and the 

 Altruistic process? What analogy can ever exist 

 between the earlier physiological Struggle for the Life 

 of Others and the later Struggle of Love ? Yet, dif- 

 ferent though their accompaniments may be, when 

 closely examined they are seen, at every essential 

 point, running parallel with each other. The object 

 in either case is to continue the life of the Species ; 

 1 Faust, Pt. ii. Bayard Taylor's tr. 



