race-preservation. This latter gives rise to the reproductive urge. So
deep-seated is this instinctive force, that in many instances in the
vegetable world, the threat of individual death results in a special
effort of reproduction and the individual dies to live in the next
generation. A force which is thus so insistent in the whole animal and
vegetable world is naturally not absent in the human being, and it is
well we should definitely recognize the fundamental power of this, in
every normal man and woman. Not seldom the reproductive instinct is
spoken of as a thing which can be put on one side and ignored. All
experience and history prove that this is impossible, and that the
attempt to do so ends in failure and disaster. But in civilized
communities it is equally impossible to allow such a force to range
unrestrained, hence the laws and customs of modern peoples. But mere
assent to external authority can never achieve more than partial
success. What is needed is whole-hearted agreement with an ideal which
can only be attained by education of every individual in a real
understanding of themselves and their responsibilities in sex matters.
It is due to the fault of parents and teachers, rather than their own,
that many men and women are to-day paying the penalty of having misused
or abused this divinely implanted instinct.


_The Law of Bi-sexual Reproduction_


It is one of Nature's plans that in the genesis of a new individual two
individuals should take a share. This holds good throughout the whole
range of living things except the lower forms of plant and animal life,
such as fungi and animalcule. But, with one or two individual
exceptions, as plants and animals evolve, the union of two elements,