lower and more purely animal.

Were it possible to place a company of the most highly evolved human
females--George Sands, Sophia Kovalevskys, or even the average cultured
females of a highly evolved race--on an island where the only males were
savages of the Fugean type, who should meet them on the shores with matted
hair and prognathous jaws, and with wild shouts, brandishing their
implements of death, to greet and welcome them, it is an undoubted fact
that, so great would be the horror felt by the females towards them, that
not only would the race become extinct, but if it depended for its
continuance on any approach to sex affection on the part of the women, that
death would certainly be accepted by all, as the lesser of two evils.
Hardly less marked would be the sexual division if, in place of cultured
and developed females, we imagine males of the same highly evolved class
thrown into contact with the lowest form of primitive females. A Darwin, a
Schiller, a Keats, though all men capable of the strongest sex emotion and
of the most durable sex affections, would probably be untouched by any
emotion but horror, cast into the company of a circle of Bushmen females
with greased bodies and twinkling eyes, devouring the raw entrails of
slaughtered beasts.

But leaving out even such extreme instances of diversity, the mere division
in culture and mental habits, dividing individuals of the same race but of
different classes, tends largely to exclude the possibility of at least the
nobler and more enduring forms of sex emotion. The highly cultured denizen
of a modern society, though he may enter into passing and temporary and
animal relations with the uncultured peasant or woman of the street, seldom
finds awakened within him in such cases the depth of emotion and sympathy
which is necessary for the enjoyment of the closer tie of conjugal life;
and it may be doubted whether the highest, most permanent, and intimate