CHAPTER XVI.

PHYSICAL SCIENCE CORROBORATES NATURAL SCIENCE.
The purpose of this chapter is to show that physical science unintentionally corroborates those fundamental principles laid down in this work as follows:
(1) The evolution of man is based in spiritual principles and forces.
(2) Sex represents the spiritual principle of polarity, or the principle of centrifugal and centripetal force.
(3) The male entity represents the aggressive or centrifugal force, while the feminine entity represents receptive or centripetal force.
(4) The greatest struggle in Nature is the struggle for com- pletion through vibratory correspondences.
(5) Sex selection illustrates this struggle for completion in the higher kingdoms.
(6) The expression of this principle in sentient, intelligent life appears as an intuitional affinity, or an individual preference or choice.
(7) Love is the expression of this principle operating through and upon individual intelligences.
(8) This struggle for completion and ethical content governs animal marriage as well as human marriage.
(9) Two animals, as well as two humans, may fulfill this law of correspondence.
(10) Such marriage constitutes a free, natural, monoga- mous, and indissoluble love union. Mathematically speaking, such a marriage is a vibratory harmonic. On the physical side it is passion, on the spiritual love, and in an ethical sense it is content or happiness to individual intelligence.
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Most of the quotations selected are from "The Evolution of Marriage." The author of that work, M. Letorneau, is a rec- ognized authority of the Darwinian school. His position as to the basis of evolution is clearly stated. He says: "The great forces called natural are unconscious; their blind action results, however, in a world of life, choice, selection and a progressive evolution."
Notwithstanding this very definite agreement with physical materialism, the author almost immediately introduces a word which contravenes this interpretation of Nature. The work opens with a careful analysis of love and marriage in animal life. In referring to procreation among superior animals, the physicist says : "In their case the act of procreation is a real efflorescence, not only physical but psychical." Again, still discussing the same subject, he adds: "It is important to bear in mind that all this expenditure of physical and psychical forces has for its motive and result the conjugation of two differing cells."
That which is important in this connection, is, not to show that this "psychical" force has another origin and motive than the conjugation of two differing cells, but that this conjugation of two physical cells requires an expenditure of two kinds of force, even in animal life, viz., physical force and "psychical" force.
Now, "psychical" force is distinctly not "physical" force, and yet physical science claims that Nature has provided only blind physical forces.
The anthropologist says elsewhere that, "In pairing season the psychic faculties of the animal are over-excited." So through- out the entire work are the words "psychic" and "psychical" repeatedly used. Reference to "psychical" causes and "psychical" phenomena is indulged as freely as if the author believed that half the facts of Nature are due to "psychical" causes.
This is one of the common contradictions and inconsistencies of our authorities of the modern school of physical science. It is a contradiction and inconsistency which none of them explains.
There is, in fact, but one explanation, and that a very simple
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one. No person of average intelligence can study living, sen- tient, intelligent Nature and escape the conviction that there are two classes of phenomena in existence, viz., physical phenomena and "psychical" phenomena.
The student finds that one part of the phenomena of life ap- pears to have a logical relation to, or basis in, the visible and tangible physical functions of Nature. He finds, on the other hand, that the other part of life's phenomena, though equally self-evident, is wholly intangible to physical sense and wholly elusive under all physical instruments and physical tests.
The physicist refers to the "psychical" phenomena of sex and the "psychical forces" in generation and reproduction, because he finds no other words to define those self-evident conditions. He is driven to the use of the term "psychical" merely because he recognizes forces which are not physical. It will be recalled that the word "psychical" is derived from the Greek "psyche," meaning the soul. The physical scientist probably did not intend by the use of that word to recognize spiritual forces, nor to acknowledge a soul element in Nature.
What he does, however, is to confess that intelligent creatures employ forces which must be recognized as super-physical. By such admission he corroborates the higher science. The phys- icist uses the word "psychical" to define super-physical forces, while the Natural Scientist employs the word "spiritual" in ex- actly the same sense.
This admission of "psychical" forces into the operations of intelligent animal life, must be held as corroborative of that proposition which declares that the evolution of man has a basis in spiritual principles, elements and forces.
Physical science also corroborates the higher science upon those propositions which declare that sex is the spiritual principle of affinity in operation, and that male and female represent the positive and aggressive, and the receptive and absorbing energies in Nature. The reader is asked to determine this for himself
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from a few disconnected statements concerning sex selection, and the characteristics of male and female nature. Havelock Ellis says:
(1) "While the men among all primitive peoples are fitted for work involving violent and brief muscular effort, the women are usually better able than the men to undergo prolonged and more passive exertion."
(2) "The militant side of primitive culture belongs to man, the industrial to woman."
(3) "The characteristic implement of woman is not a wea- pon, but the 'ulo,' or the primitive industrial knife."
(4) "The militant element ruled throughout medieval Europe and that meant the predominance of men."