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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, December 06, 1911, Image 30

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'THE GREAT HUMAN FACT .
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We may try to break away from it it is our fate always to
try but the greatest' human fact is sex. It breaks the windows
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of cabinet ministers in England.
It fills the windows of the world's
shops with their displays. It
would bankrupt the merchants if
sex were annihilated. The rail
ways would store their yards with
.unused cars.- The banks would
break. The bourses would cease
to meet. Sex is the universal urge
to endeavor.
It was the reversion to the
brute which is in us all that made
Pasquale Marchesi ?'hack off - the
heads of his wjfe and her para
mour in Wisconsin the other ddy
the blind sexTrage that lifs the
hackle on the - tiger's neck, as he
fronts his nvaj.for the possession '
of the tigress which rolls playfully in the jungle- grasses by the
spring, caring only for, the .mating with" the strongest. Which will
have her depends on the coming embrace of death in which talon
shall seek entrails,Aand tusk gouge fiercely for jugular. She will be
happy 'With the victot because he is victor., Are women to blame if
there remains in them something of the tigress, while man still re
tains so much of the tiger? ' i
The impulse that drove Henry Clay Beattie to the grave that
he filled with this primordial sex impulse. He believed-that.through
the unchecked satisfaction of it he would be "happy.' Deluded
man ! Time, was when the man cared no more for the memory of his
rival's death than does the tiger or the gamecock.
But with ..evolution has come the counter-current of impulse
which made Marchesi -a 'madman,, crazed ;"by remorse, and sent
Beattie to the electric chair after confession. The softening of man
through humanity which is .another namefor social love fought
against the old urge to, slaughter. The sudden "rage-could win for
an hour, but the swelling tide of altruism proved-more powerful in
the end.' For the remorse which conquered Marchesi and the
cruelty which .killed Beattie, were caused, directly or indirectly by
the swelling tide of altruism in human affairs. ' , ,
The time was when Marchesi would havo-rejoiced all his life.
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