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136 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
of the generative organs are intended for the perfection
of the individual, and not for the continuation of the
species. Love ripens and expands the soul, and its
organic elements give breadth, firmness, and vigor to
the bodily organs. Love diffuses through the mind
warmth, enthusiasm, energy, the elements of genius,
and gives an inexpressible charm to the feelings of the
heart. All that is brave, noble, generous, heroic, and
all that is sweet, voluptuous, tender, and endearing,
spring from the influence of the sentiment of love.
When this sentiment is undeveloped, when the cer
ebellum is small and inactive, and when the generative
organs are lacking in energy, the whole character suf
fers. It is cold, heartless, selfish, unfeeling, and want
ing in noble and generous impulses and enthusiasm.
And whatever be the cause of this lack of development
or activity, the effects are nearly the same, and afford
the most convincing proofs of what we have stated to
be the proper influence of this wonderful faculty. If
the development of the cerebellum i3 checked by the
removal of the testicles in the male, or the ovaries in
the female, at an early age, we have the most striking
results. In the male, the beard does not grow, nor the
hair upon the pubes. The larynx does not expand,
and the voice retains the high treble or contralto pitch
of boyhood. The operation was formerly much eraployed
in Italy, for this purpose. The muscles remain
soft, and there is a tendency to fatness and effeminacy
in the whole aspect. The mental and moral character
is of a corresponding emasculation. There is feeble
ness, coldness, selfishness, cowardice, and a general
lack of all we convey by the word manhood.