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No, we must on the basis of natural science
attain, in a newer and nobler form, the whole
antique love for bodily strength and beauty,
the whole antique reverence for the divine
character of the continuation of the race,
combined with the whole modern consciousness
of the soulful happiness of ideal love.
Only so can the demand for real chastity
save mankind from the torments which sexual
divisions and degradations now bring
with them. It is profoundly significant that
in the world of the past, divinity was associated
with woman on the ground of observations
concerning the continuation of the race;
while in Christianity, woman became divine
as the Virgin Mother. Through heathen and
Christian thought, reunited and ennobled, the
woman will receive a new reverence for herself
as a sexual being. Antique and modern
love, the love of the senses and the love of
soul, will, united and ennobled, induce human
beings, men and women alike, to adore again
Eros the All-powerful.
To diminish the significance of love, to
oppose it as a lowering sensualism, does not
mean the elevation of mankind; it means, on
the other hand, working for its debasement.
For as lowering as sexual life would be if it
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