1 86 Life and Love. 



a world theoretically divided into two halves, and 

 is by no means careful to complete each half to 

 the centre line. 



She does not produce types ; such uniformity 

 is not within her design. 



She goes beyond or remains short of the type, 

 and man, like the old Greek sculptor, discerns the 

 ideal, as a beautiful expression of his intellectual 

 creative power. 



Nature abhors mathematical accuracy. On a 

 grand scale only is she definite; her units, which 

 compose her great masses, are magnificently 

 indefinite. 



Her males often balance far over toward the 

 female type, her females are often developed 

 toward male ideals. 



She separates her world of life into male and 

 female, and then with infinite refinement bestows 

 upon each some attribute of the other. None 

 can claim for his half a monopoly of any one 

 quality. 



In the lower life this shifting of the line of sex 

 characteristics has produced some strange results, 

 certain males habitually assuming distinctly femi- 

 nine functions, and vice versa. 



The lower life, with its unreasoning faith in the 

 wisdom of Nature, however, is not disturbed by 

 these anomalies. 



Individuality is allowed, and whoever has the 

 power has the right. The opinion of one creature 



