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58 The Century of the Child
the impulse shamelessly and animally, with-
out any emotional decoration; or he will iso-
late himself from its inflvience and devote to
more noble purposes that vital power, that
emotional capacity, which is now consumed
by love.
Nothing impossible is to be found in this
point of view. I have shown more than once
that woman by her maternal functions, uses
up so much physical and psychical energy,
that in the sphere of intellectual production
she must remain of less significance. What
I at an earlier period assumed intuitively,
has been substantiated since then by a spe-
cialist. A Finnish doctor has shown how the
vital power of lower organisms, is concen-
trated in sexual production. But the higher
man goes, so much more power is made free.
This power which is not consumed in the
production of new generations, can serve in-
tellectual production. Each of the two dif-
ferent productive expressions of human vital
action must to a certain extent limit the
development of the power of the other, and
restrict its capacity of work. The same
writer contends that this is the natural cause
of the more limited fertility of civilised man,
and will be, according to the pessimists named
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