[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—May I presume to ask Miss Maude Royden, whose admirable article on " Sex Education " appears in your issue of August 16th, to amplify a little for the .benefit of at least one reader that part of her article in which she says that " sex is one manifestation of the creative impulse within us, and that creative impulse is nothing less than the Spirit of God who is the supreme Creator " ?
There are obviously other manifestations of the same creative impulse. Physiologically, digestion and gestation are closely analogous processes and are equally manifesta- tions of the creative impulse. Or, to take a less complex instance, when I cut my hand, the exposed cells of the wound begin to proliferate, a suture forms, the wound heals over and I recognize a manifestation of the creative impulse. Continuing this last, I might suppose that the proliferation referred to does not cease with the healing of the wound and that something of the nature of a cancer develops. There I see a manifestation of the creative impulse which has got out of control. Has it then, as such, mysticat'-or a moral significance ? The result in action of the emotive impulse is what we call anabolic synthesis which takes many forms and has many manifestations. Must some of these be separated as having mystical -significance while some have not ; and, if so, which of them and why ?—I am, Sir,
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