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LOVE IN HINDU LITERATURE. 7i ing of love through one's own eyes, or the selection of brides through great-grandmothers as matchmakers. The message of the Hindu artists is quite independent of all these questions, problems, fads, studies or scien- tific hypotheses. The dignity of sex is the right of sex as sex, of sex as a factor in human life, of sex as a natural organ. This has no reference either to the alleged usurpation of woman's rights by man during the past, or to the alleged attempt on woman's part to recover these rights by overthrowing the tyranny of man in the present. Vidyapati's formula for the sancti- ty bf sex may be given in any one of the following dicta of Whitman :

" If anything is sacred the human body is sacred." " The man's body is sacred, and the woman's body is sacred, No matter who it is, it is sacred." And, " Without shame the man I like knows and avows the deliciousness of his sex, Without shame the woman I like knows and avows hers."

Serious investigations of scientific researchers in pedagogics, medical jurisprudence, criminology, history of marriage, abnormal psychology and other branches of comparative psychology, ethnography and comparative anthropology, insanity, adolescence, and physiology of love, as well as aesthetics and religious fetishism, have been bringing to light marvellous facts about sex and its influence on the growth, development and individua- tion of personality. The out-look on life and its mys- teries is thus being deepened and widened ; and the very foundations of human logic; ethics, spirituality and