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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: intercourse to fertilize them.[2]
[1] Vol. i, p. 40, Vol. iii, pp. 24 sq.
[2] Ibid., vol. ii, p. 98.
One might go on multiplying examples in this direction
quite indefinitely. There is no end to them. They all
indicate--what was instinctively felt by early man, and is
perfectly obvious to all to-day who are not blinded by
"civilization" (and Herbert Spencer!) that the world outside
us is really most deeply akin to ourselves, that it is
not dead and senseless but intensely alive and instinct
with feeling and intelligence resembling our own. It is
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