Those men who argue that impurity is a necessity, reason that this vice should be widely diffused throughout the male sex, but concentrated in a few of the other sex. That the women who are to be degraded must be healthy, young, and attractive, is a matter of course, and though they are to be martyred for a supposed public good, yet they are to be excluded from society and dedicated to the satiation of all the coarse and perverted instincts of humanity. The women are to have all the bitterness heaped upon them, and that without hope; the brothel is to open its hungry door for them, and then to shut, never to reopen.
This sensual dallying with the holiest functions of wornankind has in it all the essential elements of cowardice, and no normally brave man can for a moment consent to be a party to such a perversion of the male role in Nature. "From the earliest times of which we have historical knowledge there have always been men who have recognized the distinction between the nobler and baser parts of their being.
They have perceived that if they would be men, and not beasts, they must control their animal passions, prefer truth to falsehood, courage to cowardice, justice to violence, and compassion to cruelty.
These are the elementary principles of morality, on the recognition of which the welfare and improvement of mankind depend, and human history has been little more than a record of the struggle which began at the beginning and will continue to the end between the few who have had ability to see into the truth and loyalty to obey it, and the multitude who by evasion or rebellion have hoped to thrive in spite of it".
THE NATURE OF THE LOVE OF MEN AND WOMEN.
Zangwill (" Without Prejudice," p. 180) has pointed out that " when you start learning a new language you always find yourself confronted with the verb 'to love'invariably the normal type of the first conjugation.
In every language on earth the student may be heard declaring with more zeal than discretion that he and you and they and every other person, singular or plural, have loved, and do love, and will love.
'To love' is the model verb, expressing the archetype of activity. . .
Not merely have people loved unconditionally in every language, but there is none in which they would not have loved, or might not have loved, had circumstances permitted; none in which they have not been loved, or (for hope springs eternal in the human breast) have been about to be loved."
The great effort of Maternal Nature is to people the earth with living beings, while Plastic Nature shapes it. All Nature is incessantly at work striving to accomplish these two ends, and, in order that the perpetuation of the species may be assured, she provides, in a remarkably lavish manner, an enormous excess of reproductive elements, and an imperious biological instinct, or sexual appetite, which, in plain words, is sexual love.
As Letourneau says1: "This amorous efflorescence is, after all, the first cause of marriage and of the family". The reason for the existence of love is, biologically, simply to bring about the union of two minute cells the spermatozoon and the ovum all other charms and fascinations, which are associated in our minds as belonging to the domain of love, centring in this one deep and natural source.