In the romance “Scipio Cicala,” by Rehfues, the Neapolitan abbess calls out “=I love love=,” after she has gone through the enumeration of all the phases of passionate love towards God. The modern man, however, says to the woman, and the woman says to the man, “=I love you=”; the general religious love has capitulated to the individual love. This is clearly the direction taken by “the way of the spirit” in love, which we shall now pursue further. [33] _Cf_. F. von Andrian, “Some Results of Modern Ethnology,” in “Correspondenzblatt der deutschen Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie, und Urgeschichte” (1894, No. 8, p. 71). [34] “Love,” in the sense above defined, is peculiar to mankind, and for this reason we must, as Ploss-Bartels also insists, admit its existence in human beings at the very lowest levels of civilization. There it is, indeed, no more than “a faintly glimmering, easily extinguished spark,” while among civilized peoples it has become “a bright, widely diffused flame.” [35] Regarding the connexion between sexuality and spiritual activity, see also Virey, “Recherches médico-philosophiques sur la Nature et les Facultés de l’Homme” (Paris, 1817, p. 39). [36] For the apt and convenient word _poietic_, in preference to _creative_ or _productive_, I have to thank Mr. H. G. Wells. See his most admirable “A Modern Utopia,” and on p. 265 _et seq._ his brilliant classification of “four main classes of mind--the Poietic, the Kinetic, the Dull, and the Base.”... “The Poietic or creative class of mental individuality embraces a wide range of types,” but, he goes on to say, the two principal varieties of the _poietic_ type are those classified as _artistic_ and _scientific_ natures respectively. It is the quality by which these two natures are distinguished from the kinetic and the dull to which Mr. Wells gives the name of “poietic,” and it is precisely this quality whose interconnexion with the sexual life is insisted on in the text by Dr. Bloch and by the authors from whom he quotes.--TRANSLATOR. [37] _Cf._ W. Griesinger, “Mental Disorders,” third edition (Brunswick, 1871, p. 7). [38] Rudolf Topp speaks of a “degeneration” of the “healthy natural reproductive impulse” into the “sexual impulse.” In the primeval period of human history, he maintains, man knew and gratified the reproductive impulse only; the sexual impulse developed gradually, and in a later stage of the evolutionary history of mankind, out of the reproductive impulse, and, in fact, is a degeneration (!) of the latter. In this period we may look for the first beginnings of functional impotence, on account of the too frequent exercise of the sexual function. _Cf._ R. Topp, “On the Therapeutic Use of Yohimbin ‘Riedel’ as an Aphrodisiac, with Especial Reference to Functional Impotence in the Male,” published in the _Allgemeine Medizinische Central-Zeitung_, 1906, No. 10.