grappled with H. for possession of the pistol, and was fired upon by C. and J., who shot him in the back.  He expired in a few minutes, his last statement being to the effect that H. was guilty as accused.  H., C., and J. were sentenced to the penitentiary for life.  During my six years’ acquaintance with H. I knew of nothing derogatory to his character, nor has anyone ever come forward to say that on any other occasion he ever displayed this weakness.  I know his early life had a pure atmosphere, as he was an only child and the idol of both his parents, who builded high their hopes of his future success, and who survive this disgrace, but are broken-hearted.

“The next case is that of the Rev. T.W., professor at the University of ——.  Mr. W. is a scholarly gentleman, affable in his address, eloquent in his oratory, and a fine classical scholar.  He was exposed by some of his students, who, to use a slang phrase, accused him of being a ‘head-worker.’  At his examination by the faculty he confessed his weakness, and said he could not control his unholy passion.  His resignation was accepted both by the church and the college, and he left.

“I know of a few other cases that have their peculiar traits, and am confident that these persons did not become possessed of this habit through the so-called ‘indiscretions of youth,’ as in every case their early life was freer from contamination than that of 90 per cent. of the boys who, on reaching man’s estate, have, like myself, no desire to deviate from the old-fashioned way formulated by our ancient sire, Adam.”

It can scarcely be said that the consciousness of this attitude of society is favorable to the invert’s attainment of a fairly sane and well-balanced state of mind.  This is, indeed, one of the great difficulties in his way, and often causes him to waver between extremes of melancholia and egotistic exaltation.  We regard all homosexuality with absolute and unmitigated disgust.  We have been taught to venerate Alexander the Great, Epaminondas, Socrates, and other antique heroes; but they are safely buried in the remote past, and do not affect our scorn of homosexuality in the present.

It was in the fourth century, at Rome, that the strong modern opposition to homosexuality was first clearly formulated in law.[265] The Roman race had long been decaying; sexual perversions of all kinds flourished; the population was dwindling.  At the same time, Christianity, with its Judaic-Pauline antagonism to homosexuality, was rapidly spreading.  The statesmen of the day, anxious to quicken the failing pulses of national life, utilized this powerful Christian feeling.  Constantine, Theodosius, and Valentinian all passed laws against homosexuality, the last, at all events, ordaining as penalty the vindices flammae; but their enactments do not seem to have been strictly carried out.  In the year 538, Justinian, professing terror of certain famines, earthquakes, and pestilences