ABSTRACT

Life is made of integral divisions. The integrity of seed and embryo is not undermined by division but enriched by it. Growth comes by division of the whole. The great division of humanity is sex—the branching of male and female. Sex embodies the basic principle that life takes form and energy from division. In living things, division means polarity, tension, and dynamism. To survive, a divided whole must coordinate its parts. The organic division of sex brings texture and nuance to species life. There can be gains in sexual division and social order only so long as the sexes maintain the integrity of species and particularly their capacity to reproduce. Female and male emphases of mind thus come as a division and specialization of orientation and expertise. The biology of attraction is fundamentally biology of division—it is not simply that opposites attract, but that elements formerly united and complementary attract.