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clear, fresh picture.
All human beings with but few tragic exceptions (and these are pathetic,
abnormal and misformed individuals) are clearly and completely of one
type or the other of the human duity. I revive the use of 'duity> which is
an ancient word but little known, for the human duality God in His
unity, mankind in our duity is the contrast contained in the word, and I
use it because I think here too is the suggestion of a fresh atmosphere
for man and woman dwelling in complete harmony with the interplay

of all their own individual qualities, creating the perfect human duity.
All the cruelties, abominations, contaminations, terrors and indecencies
which have resulted from the misuse of the purely physical aspects of
sex will be ultimately swept away by the higher form of -dual life. For
not only in our material bodies but in an overwhelming degree
throughout our social life and all our institutions does the. richness and
the vitality of life depend on the bifurcation of the human species and
its mutual elevation and evolution. There is no escaping the reality of
the erogamic life unless one envelops one's intellect in a cloudy fog of
mental confusion. Those who live in such confusion may maintain that
this duity is non-essential. But why should those who see the light
follow those who have merely dulled the intelligence? Given a
realization of all the beauty and the potential power that the dual
harmony in the erogamic life can contain, none would desire to escape
into mono-sexual asceticism, but with a bold and joyous front would
face the facts, recognising the marvellous richness that the play and
interplay of man and woman has made with all their ultimate
ramifications of beauty and art, social conventions and decoration.
Those who claim that the higher intellectual and spiritual achievements
of the erogamic life can be surpassed in any other way are merely
deluding themselves.
The new and still nascent higher sex morality which I am trying to
crystallise (as in Married Love, the New Gospel, and parts of my other
books) encourages complete health and happiness in individuals
welded into life-long devotion on the part of the married pair and
presents the idea of the erogamic life of the human duity as the highest
mundane expression of life. The new code imposes the duty that this
human duity shall reproduce its kind consciously and deliberately in the
interests of the Race and as the flower of the noblest erogamic life of
the adults. This new morality restores Christ's gospel of Love and
shields it with knowledge, exalts motherhood above virginity but only
when it is responsible motherhood, and eliminating the evils of
polygamy and prostitution yet restores due respect to the vitalising gift
of sex experience.
I desire to close with the main thought contained in it, that our sex life

is our most direct link with the Divine life, and therefore a reverent
enquiry into and a deep knowledge of all the relevant facts about sex
are not only legitimate but essential to one who desires to help youth to
lead a noble life.

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