“He belongs on one side to man’s primordial animal nature which will endure as long as man has an animal body. On the other side, he is related to the highest forms of the spirit. But he only thrives when spirit and instinct are in right harmony. If one or the other is lacking to him, the result is injury or at least a lopsidedness that may easily veer towards the pathological.”

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