204 Life and Love. 



seems to have reached its climax. Progress up- 

 ward now appears to be no longer of the body; in 

 man physical evolution stops, the highest seems to 

 have been reached. Progress has passed on from 

 physical expression into a new field ; it has become 

 the development of intelligence. 



Certain changes which mark the advanced com- 

 munity as a whole, necessarily and in no less 

 degree mark the individuals composing it. The 

 sexes are not sharply distinguished from each 

 other in the intellectual and emotional realms. On 

 the whole, men as a class probably show a prepon- 

 derance of what may be termed masculine charac- 

 teristics, as greater egoism, variability, activity; 

 but these masculine characteristics have been 

 modified, lessened, effeminizcd, so to speak. In the 

 higher type of man the best and highest feminine 

 characteristics have been fused with the best and 

 highest masculine characteristics. The fighting 

 instinct, for instance, has become moral couragje; 

 the tendency to vary expresses itself in great intel- 

 lectual development; instability and restlessness 

 have become intellectual rather than physical quali- 

 ties, leading to notable inventions and discoveries. 



Brave and gentle, strong and tender, inventive 

 and patient, the finest type of man owes his supe- 

 riority to the transforming and illuminating power 

 of his inheritance of womanly qualities. 



And while, in the dawning light of intelligence, 

 woman has thus elevated her mate, he has equally 



