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His easy, fleeting touch, his unflagging vivacity, his wit, his fertility of invention, his amative coloring are all as thoroughly French as bonbons or champagne.

Proposition 23.—The amative and propagative functions are distinct from each other, and may be separated practically.

He was amative or constructive, and at the same time he not only possessed but liked to exercise lucidity of thought.

Two qualities, indeed, of his nature he kept in such abeyance, the amative and the humorous—and he was not without a humorous side—as to express but little of them in his writings.

As an old man, he denounced carnal pleasure of all kinds, and sought to limit the amative instincts to the one sole end of procreation.