156 Life and Love. 



ments and activity, under these changed conditions, 

 concerning which more will be said later, is used 

 in storing up reserve nutriment in the body. 



The higher the life, the more arduous the task 

 of reproduction ; for which reason there doubtless 

 has been evolved the division of labor resulting 

 from the employment of the sexes. 



The final union of the two cells themselves has 

 not unjustly been attributed to the same reasons 

 which are supposed to draw the two protozoa 

 together. An incipient starvation on the part of 

 both may have led them to unite, attracted by the 

 powerful magnetism which exists between these 

 different atoms. It is the active, ill-nourished male 

 cell that always seeks the passive, well-nourished 

 female-cell and dissolves into its substance. 



The particular need of the female cell seems to 

 be stimulus rather than nutrition. 



Stored up in the egg of a fish or a bird is power 

 almost sufficient to develop into a new being, but 

 it cannot quite accomplish this stupendous feat. 

 Impressed upon each tiny egg-cell in some myste- 

 rious way is a memory of the whole ancestry of its 

 race, — of the individual peculiarities of its parents 

 as well as of countless ancestors. 



Is it any wonder one egg cannot complete the 

 whole process by itself? 



It desires help, it seeks more power, and this it 

 gets from a cell apparently unlike itself and having 

 power by this very unlikeness to impart to it that 



