may, to each other's improvement and welfare.
This is the great general law which lies at the very basis of our
being; this is the law which asserts its majesty in the depths of
our consciousness. This law has manifestly a specific and
beneficent application to the relation which binds man to woman,
and unites woman to man. In a natural state of things, where the
ordinances of our true Father were regarded, where the principles
of our existence were reverently heeded, as a matter of course,
individually and generally, man would devote himself, as man,
generously, magnanimously, his entire self, whatever belongs to
his manhood, in every department of his being--he would devote
himself, as man, to woman; and woman, on the other hand, would
just as characteristically, just as nobly, just as cheerfully,
just as gratefully, just as effectively, devote herself to the
improvement and welfare of man; and according to the nature of
the relation which unites them, the one would supply whatever
might seem to be demanded in the construction of the other. A man
is never completely himself until he is united to woman, and a
woman is never completely herself until she is united to man; and
thus they become a beautiful unit, playing continually into each
other's hands, their hearts beating in delightful harmony with
each other. This is the great fundamental law of our social
existence. The very germ of the social is to be found in the
sexual relations which bind men and women together, and society,
in all its forms and phases, is nothing under heaven but the
development, the fit, symmetrical, and full development of the
germ to which I have thus referred.

As has already been intimated in the beautiful thoughts which
have been expressed by those who have preceded me, the great law,
which was, perhaps, as intelligibly and impressively presented by
Napoleon as by any other man, giving liberty to every man to use
the tools who is qualified to use them--"The tools to him who can
use them!"--or, in better language still, as it fell from the
lips of the Great Teacher, "Every man according to his
ability"--this great law applies with equal force to woman as to
man. There have been women greatly distinguished for physical
power. You remember the old story of Kate Gu