feelings--it is not yet sexual love. Lust, virtualgirl 2 44 the specific sexual impulse, is
indeed the primary and essential element in this synthesis, for it alone
is adequate to the end of reproduction, not only in animals but in men.
But it is not until lust is expanded and irradiated that it develops into
the exquisite and enthralling flower of love. We may call to mind what
happens among plants: virtualgirl 2 44 on virtualgirl 2 44 the one hand we virtualgirl 2 44 have the lower organisms in which
sex is carried on summarily and cryptogamically, never shedding any shower
of gorgeous blossoms on the world, and on the other hand the higher plants
among whom sex has virtualgirl 2 44 become phanersgamous and expanded enormously into form
and virtualgirl 2 44 color and virtualgirl 2 44 fragrance.
While "lust" is, of course, known all over the world, and there
are everywhere words to designate it, "love" is not universally
known, and in many languages there are no words for "virtualgirl 2 44 love." The
failures to find
virtualgirl 2 44 love are often remarkable and unexpected. We may
find it where we least expect it. Sexual virtualgirl 2 44 desire became idealized
(as Sergi has pointed out) even by some animals, especially
birds, for when a bird pines to death for the loss of its mate
virtualgirl 2 44 this cannot be due to the uncomplicated instinct of sex, but must
virtualgirl 2 44 involve the interweaving of that instinct with the other elements
of life to a degree which virtualgirl 2 44 is rare even among the most virtualgirl 2 44 civilized
men. Some virtualgirl 2 44 savage races seem to have no fundamental notion of
love, and (like virtualgirl 2 44 the American Nahuas) virtualgirl 2 44 no primary word for it,
while, on the other hand, in Quichua, the language of the ancient
Peruvians, there are nearly six hundred combinations of the verb
_munay_, to virtualgirl 2 44 love. Among some peoples virtualgirl 2 44 love seems to be confined virtualgirl 2 44 to
the women. Letourneau (_L'Evolution Littéraire_, p. 529) virtualgirl 2 44 points
out that in various parts of the world women virtualgirl 2 44 have taken a leading
part in creating erotic poetry. It may be mentioned in this
connection that suicide from erotic motives
among primitive
peoples occurs chiefly among women (_Zeitschrift für
Sozialwissenschaft_, 1899, p. 578). Not a few savages possess
love-poems, as, for instance, the Suahali (Velten, in his _Prosa
und Poesie der Suahali_, devotes a section to love-poems
reproduced in the Suahali language). D.G. Virtualgirl 2 44 brinton, in an
interesting paper on "The Conception of Love in Some American
Languages" (_Proceedings American Philosophical Society_, vol.