"We call by the name of lust," he declares in his MSS., "the most simple and natural desires.

We might as well term hunger and thirst 'lust' as so call sex-passion, when expressing simply Nature's prompting.

We miscall it 'lust,' cruelly libelling those to whom we ascribe it, and introduce absolute disorder.

For, by foolishly confounding Nature's demands with lust, we insist upon restraint upon her." [64] Several centuries earlier another French writer, the distinguished physician, A.Laurentius (Des Laurens) in his _Historia Anatomica Humani Corporis_ (lib.

viii, Quaestio vii) had likewise puzzled over "the incredible desire of coitus," and asked how it was that "that divine animal, full of reason and judgment, which we call Man, should be attracted to those obscene parts of women, soiled with filth, which are placed, like a sewer, in the lowest part of the body." It is noteworthy that, from the first, and equally among men of religion, men of science, and men of letters, the mystery of this problem has peculiarly appealed to the French mind.
[65] Schopenhauer, _Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung_, vol.ii, pp.