cultured, powerful, and highly differentiated male intelligences that the
race has produced. A Mill, a Shelley, a Goethe, a Schiller, a Pericles,
have not been more noted for vast intellectual powers, than for the depth
and intensity of their sexual emotions. And, if possible, with the human
female, the relation between intensity of sexual emotion and high
intellectual gifts has been yet closer. The life of a Sophia Kovalevsky, a
George Eliot, an Elizabeth Browning have not been more marked by a rare
development of the intellect than by deep passionate sexual emotions. Nor
throughout the history of the race has high intelligence and intellectual
power ever tended to make either male or female unattractive to those of
the opposite sex.

The merely brilliantly attired and unintelligent woman, probably never
awakened the same intensity of profound sex emotion even among the men of
her own type, which followed a George Sand; who attracted to herself with
deathless force some of the most noted men of her generation, even when,
nearing middle age, stout, and attired in rusty and inartistic black, she
was to be found rolling her cigarettes in a dingy office, scorning all the
external adornments with which less attractive females seek to supply a
hidden deficiency. Probably no more hopeless mistake could be made by an
ascetic seeking to extirpate sex emotion and the attraction of the sexes
for one another, than were he to imagine that in increasing virility,
intelligence, and knowledge this end could be attained. He might thereby
differentiate and greatly concentrate the emotions, but they would be
intensified; as a widely spread, shallow, sluggish stream would not be
annihilated but increased in force and activity by being turned into a
sharply defined, clear-cut course.

And if, further, we turn to those secondary manifestations of sexual
emotion, which express themselves in the relations of human progenitors to