e found alone with its justification and explanation in
the relations of the sexes. There and therein only."(3)

3) Hargrave Jennings, Phallicism.

As the conception of a deity originated in sex, or in the creative
agencies female and male which animate Nature, we may reasonably expect
to find, in the history of the development of the two sex-principles
and in the notions entertained concerning them throughout past ages,
a tolerably correct account of the growth of the god-idea. We shall
perceive that during an earlier age of human existence, not only were
the reproductive powers throughout Nature, and especially in human
beings and in animals, venerated as the Creator, but we shall find also
that the prevailing ideas relative to the importance of either sex in
the office of reproduction decided the sex of this universal creative
force. We shall observe also that the ideas of a god have always
corresponded with the current opinions regarding the importance of
either sex in human society. In other words, so long as female power
and influence were in the ascendency, the creative force was regarded
as embodying the principles of the female nature; later, however, when
woman's power waned, and the supremacy of man was gained, the god-idea
began gradually to assume the male characters and attributes.

Through scientific research the fact has been observed that, for ages
after life appeared on the earth, the male had no separate existence;
that the two sex-principles, the sperm and the germ, were contained
within one and the same individual. Through the processes of
differentiation, however, these elements became detached, and with the
separation of the male from the female, the reproductive functions were
henceforth confided to two separate individuals.

As originally, throughout Nature, the female was the visible organic
unit within whom was contained the exclusive creative power, and as
throughout the earlier ages of life on the earth she comprehended the
male, it is not perhaps singular that, even after the appearance of
mankind on the earth, the greater importance of the mother element in
human society should have been recognized; nor, as the power to bring
forth coupled with perceptive wisdom originally constituted the Creator,
that the god-idea should have been female instead of male.

From the facts to be observed in relation to this subject, it is
altogether probable that for ages the generating principl