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fact indulgence, at intervals, or a deliberate plaything. But this recognition was scarcely ever active on both sides, and one person usually submitted to the tonfident delusion of the other, realizing the futility of his attempt to discover a clear-eyed mate.

Now, what is the inference lurking behind this protective, century-long turmoil perpetuated by men and women who felt a need for escaping from their monotonous, unadorned, sexual resemblances? This longing for escape could not have been generated and insistently developed if it had not sprung frem a fundamental element having no connection with sexual impulse. His sexual desires could never have been gripped by a longing for evasion and ornamentation if they had formed the whole of him. In that case they would have felt no discontent with their nude reiteration: the questions of hiding and gilding would never have occurred to them, and several incidents in history would never have happened. Man contains another element—Freudians to the contrary—the fire ringing the mud, which has persistently goaded him into efforts at tran- scending his flesh and its subtle, diluted branches. This element found itself powerless to slay its enemy—the flesh was equally insistent—and was forced to veil and decorate this enemy into the endurable counterfeit of an unattainable victory. The drama in which man cajoled, threatened, and gilded his sexual impulses occurred because a realization of their monotonous dominance was unpleasant to his taste. Pleasant to the palate of his sex, but unpleasant to his unformed longings for mental and aesthetic variety. Man contains a scarcely touched world which has, for ages, driven his sexual longings into endless evasions, brutalities, and imaginary godships. The psycho-analyst does not recognize this contradictory situation and has merely reclassified the obstructing physical surface of man's action and motives. He is simply the shrewd forerunner of a wider and more penetrating explanation.