1 2 Life and Love. 



future generations. Otherwise its race would 

 become extinct. 



Just as food is the first great need of the individ- 

 ual, so is reproduction the first great need of the 

 race. By this mysterious power the places of 

 those who die are filled by others, and the cycle 

 of life is eternally renewed. 



From earliest ages to the present day, the mystery 

 of reproduction has held an all-important place 

 in the mind and heart of man. Among the ancients 

 it has been the subject of most sublime religious 

 expressions, and rightly understood, is one of the 

 most beautiful, most wonderful, most sacred of 

 truths. 



This renewal, this creation of new beings out 

 of the elements of those that exist, is intimately 

 connected with the mystery of life itself. 



From the lowest to the highest, all forms of life 

 possess the power of reproduction. 



And what is this mysterious power which awed 

 and puzzled the ancient world as it awes and 

 puzzles us of to-day? 



It is the gift of life which the parent makes to 

 the child, the division of the parent, which, no 

 longer able to continue its solitary existence, at a 

 given right time shares its life with another, that 

 other its offspring. 



Life in its beginnings is in outer appearance 

 all alike and seems very simple. Some forms of 

 life are content to abide always in the beginning; 



