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upward impulse resulting in a creature of greater 

 individuality. 



After there was sufficient differentiation in the 

 beginning forms of life to produce two distinct 

 sexes, thus bestowing great power of variation 

 through many ancestors, the gain on the side of 

 individuality cannot be overestimated. 



Individuality is the beneficent result of sexual 

 reproduction. 



Power to vary, power to be different from others, 

 power to be ones self, distinct from every one else, 

 — this is individuality, and this is the boon sexual 

 reproduction has given to the world. 



From sexual reproduction as a starting-point 

 have come too, by slow degrees, the higher faculties. 



Through it has come a knowledge of the joy of 

 sharing the strongest and deepest pleasures with 

 another. Sexual reproduction made impossible 

 that frightful selfishness which must have charac- 

 terized all life, if each individual had lived alone 

 and for self, or even for self and offspring. 



Sexual reproduction bestowed at the same time 

 individuality and universality. 



It created the individual; it forbade the individ- 

 ual to live for himself alone. 



On a low plane at first, it passed upward to illu- 

 minated regions. 



, Love has given the initial motion to intellectual 

 and spiritual life, and is still the most powerful 

 force of earthly existence. 



