nt association of sexual with religious excitement.[164]
The appeal made during a religious revival to an unconverted person
has psychologically some resemblance to the attempt of the male to
overcome the hesitancy of the female. In each case the will has to be
set aside, and strong suggestive means are used; and in both cases the
appeal is not of the conflict type, but of an intimate, sympathetic,
and pleading kind. In the effort to make a moral adjustment, it
consequently turns out that a technique is used which was derived
originally from sexual life, and the use, so to speak, of the sexual
machinery for a moral adjustment involves, in some cases, the carrying
over into the general process of some sexual manifestations. The
emotional forms used and the emotional states aroused are not entirely
stripped of their sexual content.

On the race side, also, there is a stage in development where the
sexual pattern is transferred almost unmodified to public affairs. The
following extracts from a lengthy description given by Mr. Bowdich
of his reception by the king of Ashanti, in the year 1817, will
illustrate sufficiently the employment of the turkey-cock pattern of
activity in political relations:

The sun was reflected with a glare scarcely more supportable
than the heat from massive gold ornaments which glistened in
every direction. More than a hundred bands burst at once on
our arrival, with the peculiar airs of their several chiefs;
the horns flourished their defiances, with the beating of
innumerable drums and metal instruments, and then yielded for
a while to the soft breathings of their long flutes.... At
least a hundred large umbrellas or canopies, which could
shelter thirty persons, were sprung up and down by the bearers
with brilliant effect, being made of scarlet, yellow, and
the most showy cloths and silks, and crowned on the top with
crescents, pelicans, elephants, barrels, and arms and swords
of gold.... The caboceers, as did their superior captains, and
attendants, wore Ashanti cloths of extravagant price, from the
costly foreign silks which had been unravelled to weave them
in all the varieties of color as well as pattern: they were
of incredible size and weight, and thrown over the shoulder
exactly like the Roman toga; a small silk fillet generally
encircled their temples, and many gold necklaces, intricately
wrought, suspend