ABSTRACT
Of course, sex was more distinctly apparent in animals and mankind than in plants, but even here, the ideas as to the sexual process were vague and wholly unscientific. In fact, the earliest references, in the oldest mythologies, did not always assume two complementary principles or agencies (sometimes spoken of as “antagonistic principles”), but seem to have taught that the Creator was of hermaphrodite nature. I have already stated that in early cosmogonies the cosmic egg; was not associated with a feminine or not even with any sexual agency.
