Male and Female. 171 



They recognize in each other an individuality 

 different and agreeable. 



Sex maturity is to the individual what sexual 

 reproduction is to the race. 



It bestows strength, variability, individuality. 



Although it is so often the harbinger of death, 

 while life does continue it is literally transformed 

 and illuminated by the mighty power of the per- 

 fected sex activity. 



When the caterpillar, for instance, passes through 

 its pupa form and emerges as a butterfly into its 

 sexually mature state, it is a different being from 

 what it ever had been before. 



It seems to have entered upon a finer and higher 

 life; it has cast aside the more earthly for the 

 more spiritual form. 



Its pleasures are of a different and higher type. 

 It has become complete. Life in it glows in a 

 warmer and brighter flame. 



Love is the cause of this transformation. To the 

 butterfly the condition of love, the power of love is 

 life, this winged, bright life ; the expression of love 

 is death. Isolate the butterfly so that he lose not 

 the vital reproductive principle and he continues 

 to live. The love flight having once been taken, 

 death is his portion. 



This close connection between love and death is 

 everywhere apparent in the lower ranks of life. In 

 many instances the act of reproduction terminates 

 the life of the parent. 



