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He proclaims the act, even for the one goal he allows to be right, as low, and in itself degrading, to be engaged in solely after "prayer and fasting" and "mortifying the flesh," and even then, in essentially the most passionless, and only performed-because-it-has-to-be manner; as a mere matter of responsibility; to be permitted by sufferance; joyless, disgusting in itself; a one thing to be averted, even in thought, apart from it is a necessity for the continuance of the race. As a matter of reality, the secondary operate of intercourse within the human family is something far above mere animality; it's something that mere animals know nothing about, that they will never expertise, or in any method attain to, and these basic differences within the premises take away the whole concern from the realm of comparison with any kinds or capabilities of mere animal life. Instinct can by no means bring it about; "innocence" will never yield such a outcome; and force, or the declaration of a "proper" within the premises will endlessly banish it to the realm of the by no means-to-be-realized. Now all these "authorities" base their entire argument upon the purely animal information within the premises.