fragments, which are parts of old chains of activity involved in the pursuit, combat, capture, torture, and killing of men and enemies?...  Is not this hypothesis of transmitted fragments of instincts in accord with the strangely anomalous fact that children are at one moment seemingly cruel and at the next affectionate and kind, vibrating, as it were, between two worlds, egotistic and altruistic, without conscious sense of incongruity?” (F.L.  Burk, “Teasing and Bullying,” Pedagogical Seminary, April, 1897.)

The primitive connection of the special emotions of anger and fear with the sexual impulse has been well expressed by Colin Scott in his remarkable study of “Sex and Art”:  “If the higher forms of courting are based on combat, among the males at least anger must be intimately associated with love.  And below both of these lies the possibility of fear.  In combat the animal is defeated who is first afraid.  Competitive exhibition of prowess will inspire the less able birds with a deterring fear.  Young grouse and woodcock do not enter the lists with the older birds, and sing very quietly.  It is the same with the very oldest birds.  Audubon says that the old maids and bachelors of the Canada goose move off by themselves during the courting of the younger birds.  In order to succeed in love, fear must be overcome in the male as well as in the female.  Courage is the essential male virtue, love is its outcome and reward.  The strutting, crowing, dancing, and singing of male birds and the preliminary movements generally of animals must gorge the neuromotor and muscular systems with blood and put them in better fighting trim.  The effects of this upon the feelings of the animal himself must be very great.  Hereditary tendencies swell his heart.  He has ‘the joy that warriors feel.’  He becomes regardless of danger, and sometimes almost oblivious of his surroundings.  This intense passionateness must react powerfully on the whole system, and more particularly on those parts which are capable, such as the brain, of using up a great surplus of blood, and on the naturally erethic functions of sex.  The flood of anger or fighting instinct is drained off by the sexual desires, the antipathy of the female is overcome, and sexual union successfully ensues....  Courting and combat shade into one another, courting tending to take the place of the more basal form of combat.  The passions which thus come to be associated with love are those of fear and anger, both of which, by arousing the whole nature and stimulating the nutritive sources from which they flow, come to increase the force of the sexual passion to which they lead up and in which they culminate and are absorbed,” (Colin Scott, “Sex and Art,” American Journal of Psychology, vol. vii, No. 2, pp. 170 and 215.)

It must be remembered that fear is an element liable to arise in all courtship on one side or the other.  It is usually on the side