2o6 Life and Love. 



and best of the masculine qualities, until the high- 

 est type of woman, gentle and brave, tender and 

 strong, patient and inventive, is born to bless the 

 world. 



Nor does this borrowing of the characteristics 

 of each by the other mean the merging of the two 

 sexes into one, — the obliteration of sex differ- 

 ence and hence of sex attraction. It means the 

 elevation of man by developing his masculine 

 qualities in the direction of their highest possibili- 

 ties, and by adding to manhood a new charm, a 

 subtle grace, an irresistible beauty. It means the 

 elevation of woman by the development of her 

 womanly qualities in the direction of their highest 

 possibilities, and by adding to womanhood a new 

 power, a deeper, more far-reaching sympathy, an 

 ineffable glow, and a nobler beauty. 



The mind is a mighty solvent; through it the 

 two sexes have been united in an intellectual 

 union, from which has been born a new man, with 

 the dominant masculine characteristics developed 

 in their noblest direction, and enriched by union 

 with feminine characteristics ; and a new woman, 

 with the feminine characteristics grandly developed 

 and enhanced by what was once in the province of 

 masculine knowledge and activity. 



Thus is the sympathy between the two sexes 

 stronger and on a higher plane than could other- 

 wise be possible. The attraction of the one to the 

 other is more subtle and more wrought about by 

 noble and worthy sentiments. 



