184 Life and Love. 



Moreover, all through life the vigor and power 

 of the male are maintained by the presence in un- 

 wasted abundance of the fertilizing fluid. Any- 

 excessive loss of this wonderful stimulus always 

 results in the deterioration, mentally and physically, 

 of the creature. Its power is not only to create 

 new forms, but to rejuvenate, to invigorate, to 

 ■ stimulate and inspire the whole organism. 



It is the greatest dynamic force of male life, 

 endowing the being with beauty, making it a power, 

 and bestowing upon it an ineffable charm. 



This great sex vitality is capable of conversion 

 into other channels, becoming a source of power in 

 various directions. The perfect horse, for instance, 

 in some countries is kept gentle and quiet by work ; 

 the sex activity is thus capable of being converted, 

 to an extent, into muscle power. 



Instead of being deprived of his sex power and 

 thereby having his strength lessened, the horse 

 has his superabundant activity converted into use- 

 ful work; and this can be done with any of the 

 higher animals. 



Great activity cannot express itself in two direc- 

 tions at once. One activity exists in excess at the 

 expense of other activities. 



Active out-of-door exercise, by supplying abun- 

 dant oxygen, and working off the superfluous 

 energy through the muscular system, tends to 

 prevent too great stimulus of the sex impulse.. 



In mammalian life the male has risen to as 



