164 Life and Love 



Although sex has created the individual, sex 

 activity is not the propert}' of the individual. The 

 being who makes the mistake of supposing this, 

 and of subverting the office of sex to purely per- 

 sonal use, pays the penalty of the breaker of primal 

 laws. 



The function of sex is for race purposes, not 

 individual purpose. Nature works ever on a 

 grand scale. She creates individuals, but never an 

 individual. 



The individual in the process of evolution is 

 always sacrificed to the race, which, for the time, 

 is nature's unit. Sex, therefore, does not belong 

 to the individual, but reaches out through him, and 

 past him, into that greater, more important fact, — ■. 

 the race. 



Hence individuals frequently suffi;r loss and even 

 death, that the greater end may be accomplished. 



Yet, contradictory as it may seem, the individual 

 is evidently the final end of nature's aim. The 

 final completion and perfection of the individual is 

 the ultimate end of the race. 



As life advances it tends to become more and 

 more individualized. The individual tends to con- 

 trol the race. The man of genius, the most highly 

 individualized of created beings, has the power of 

 generations of ordinary mortals. His influence 

 outweighs that of multitudes of other men, and 

 may ultimately affect the thought, and conse- 

 quently the life, of his whole race. 



