Mankind Is Becoming A Single Unit, And

Courtship, Properly Understood, Is The Process Whereby Both The Male And The Female Are Brought Into That State Of Sexual Tumescence Which Is A More Or Less Necessary Condition For Sexual Intercourse. The Play Of Courtship Cannot, Therefore, Be Considered To Be Definitely Brought To An End By The Ceremony Of Marriage; It May More Properly Be Regarded As The Natural Preliminary To Every Act Of Coitus.

The Modesty Of Women, Which, In Its Most Primitive Form Among Animals, Is Based On Sexual Periodicity, Is, With That Periodicity, An Essential Condition Of Courtship.

The Romantic Embrace Can Only Be Compared With Music And With Prayer.

I Always Seem To Have A Vague Feeling That He Is A Satan Among Musicians, A Fallen Angel In The Darkness Who Is Perpetually Seeking To Fight His Way Back To Happiness.

There Can Be No Sexual Love Without Lust; But, On The Other Hand, Until The Currents Of Lust In The Organism Have Been Irradiatedas To Affect Other Parts Of The Psychic Organism--at The Least The Affections And The Social Feelings--it Is Not Yet Sexual Love. Lust, The Specific Sexual Impulse, Is Indeed The Primary And Essential Element In This Synthesis, For It Alone Is Adequate To The End Of Reproduction, Not Only In Animals But In Men. But It Is Not Until Lust Is Expanded And Irradiated That It Develops Into The Exquisite And Enthralling Flower Of Love.