Man, in his true nature, is the gambler, the adventurer, the one who strays to new fields, who fights, who is more or less reckless, and who tends, therefore, toward the new and the radical. Men have been our great pioneers whether along extraverted or introverted lines, whether in giving us great new ideas or arts, or in exploration, tearing down and rebuilding, leading peoples to new forms of government, etc. Woman, on the other hand, in her true nature is cautious, wants to keep things as they are, looks for safety. A woman who had been radical in her youth told a friend of mine that getting children made her a conservative. This was natural. All the womanly qualities of patience, love, loyalty and devotion are necessary in bringing up children; and naturally she wants that security and rock of changelessness that her task may not be broken up. Woman tends, therefore, to be the conservative. While man rushes out to grasp the new, she safeguards the heritage of the past. It is not curious, therefore, that just a few days before the general strike broke out in England, one of the most radical acts that nation has known, there was a great parade of women of every rank protesting against strikes--or, in other words, a demand that the vast problem be worked out along conservative and safe lines. However, while these two principles of the masculine and feminine are mutually opposed, we find on close study that they co-exist in each one of us. It would seem as if each human being had in him the whole of human nature, and that whole is not only the qualities of aggression, of self-assertion, of recklessness and courage, but also the qualities of tenderness, devotion, patience, etc. Put differently, while the bodies of man and woman differ from each other sexually, they are fundamentally the same body; so, too, while a man is more masculine than a woman, and she more feminine than a man, each has, though in less degree, the traits of the other. This is one explanation of how men and women attract each other. A man who was, say, sixty percent masculine and forty feminine, would be apt to be attracted by his opposite, a woman sixty percent feminine and forty masculine. A man extremely feminine would seek a woman extremely masculine, and so on. And obviously enough, the percentage of either principle in a man or woman would have some effect on the sexuality. A more feminine man would lack aggressiveness and assertiveness, and be more passive; a more masculine woman would want to take the upper hand. With this understanding of the mixed natures of man and woman we may better comprehend the art of love. THE ART OF LOVE Havelock Ellis, the great English student of sexuality, and a pioneer in that field, coined the phrase.