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. . . The unalienable
right of man and beast to enact that which shall confound death, and
replenish the land with youth, and joy, and teeming life. The right
which priestly castes of every age have striven to repress, which
triumphs over every obstacle and sanctifies, by its fruits, the wildest
impulses of man. The right to love!
Musing thus, he began to understand why men of old, who looked things
squarely in the face, should have deified this friendly, all-compelling
passion. He reverenced the fierce necessity which drives the living
world to its fairest and sole enduring effort. Be fruitful and
multiply. He recognized for the firs ttime that he was not a lonely
figure on earth, but absorbed into a solemn and eternal movement; bound
close to the throbbing heart of the Universe. There was grandeur, there
was repose, in being able to regard himself as an integral part of
nature, destined to create and leave his mark. He felt that he was
growing into harmony with permanent things--finding himself.


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