[The Vanishing Man by R. Austin Freeman]@TWC D-Link bookThe Vanishing Man CHAPTER XVII 13/31
I am more sorry than I can tell you." "Thank you," I said.
"It's exceedingly good of you to listen so patiently, but it's a shame for me to pester you with my sentimental troubles." "Now, Berkeley, you don't think that, and I hope you don't think that I do.
We should be bad biologists and worse physicians if we should under-estimate the importance of that which is Nature's chiefest care. The one salient biological truth is the paramount importance of sex; and we are deaf and blind if we do not hear and see it in everything that lives when we look abroad upon the world; when we listen to the spring song of the birds, or when we consider the lilies of the field.
And as is man to the lower organisms, so is human love to their merely reflex manifestations of sex.
I will maintain, and you will agree with me, I know, that the love of a serious and honourable man for a woman who is worthy of him is the most momentous of all human affairs.
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