Now, why is this? There can be but one answer, and that is that these people simply inherited a portion of the _psychos_ of their forefathers, which made the tenets of this religion natural and easy of belief. I have demonstrated, I believe, that religious feeling was not a psychical trait in the beginning; like a number of other mental attributes, it was the result of evolution.[104] Mental abstraction, especially as associated with religious feeling, was the result of psychical growth, of psychically inherited experiences.[AH] As _psychos_ grew beneath the fostering influence of ages of experience, the mind became able to formulate abstract thought. In the beginning, the process of ratiocination was, necessarily, very simple; but, simple as it was, it was able to recognize the source of life--first, in the sun, then, in the second place, in man himself; and, finally and _abstractly_, in a source outside of, but connected with, man. This abstract source, which sprung from sexuality, _ab initio_, they deified and worshiped. Thus we see that, in the very beginning, the worship of the generative principle sprung from, and was a part of, man himself. Throughout thousands and thousands of years, religious feeling and sexual desire, the component parts of phallic adoration, were intimately associated; finally, religio-sexuality became an instinct, just as a belief in the existence of a double or soul became an instinct. [104] Huxley: _Essays_; Haeckel: _The History of Creation_; Haeckel: _The Evolution of Man_; Peschel: _The Races of Man_; De Quatrefages: _The Human Species_; Draper: _The Conflict Between Religion and Science_; White: _History of the Warfare of Science with Theology_; Romanes: _Mental Evolution in Man_; Wallace: _The Malay Archipelago_ (_The Races of Man in the Malay Archipelago_, c. xl); Darwin's _Works_; Maudsley: _The Physiology of Mind_; Tylor: _Anthropology_; Spencer: _Synthetic Philosophy_--_Prin. Psych., Prin. Sociol._ [AH] The sense of familiarity implies previous perception now dissociated, but subconsciously present and struggling up toward the surface of the upper consciousness to gain recognition. Boris Sidis: _Multiple Personality_, p. 51. Belief in the existence of a soul has never been repressed; its utility is still recognized; hence, it is present in our active consciousness. The accumulated experiences of civilization have, however, declared the inutility of phallic worship, hence, it has been crowded out of our active consciousness by a process of selection and has been relegated to the innermost recesses of our subliminal consciousness, where also dwell many other formerly active instincts of our savage ancestors. When circumstances favoring their appearances occur, these pseudo-dormant instincts always become evident; it is due to this fact that the correlation of religious emotion and sexual desire exists. VIRAGINITY AND EFFEMINATION.