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reflection, and conscious reasoning, taken to courtship by- 

 persuasion and fascination, similar to that of the birds 

 and other remote creatures, retaining, however, for a long 

 period his habit of fighting with other males to establish 

 his claim to the woman of his choice. And at last, in 

 his later development in civilized lands, he has abandoned 

 the more obvious arts of courtship and has taken to 

 decorating his womankind instead of himself. He has 

 made woman take over the habit of courtship by the 

 fascination of colour and pose whilst he looks on in 

 sombre clothing with thoughtful reserve. He does not 

 any longer even rely on his strength or skill in fighting 

 in order to scatter his rivals, but makes appeal by word 

 to the sympathy of the desired mate and trusts to the 

 fascination which the power, given either by superior in- 

 tellectual quality or by accumulated wealth, have for her. 



