of ‘morals.’  To put it shortly, ’there were never the time and the place and the loved one together.’  In another view, physical desire and the general affection have not always coexisted toward the same person; and the former without the latter is comparatively transient; while the latter stops the gratification of the former, if it is felt that that gratification could in any way make the object of affection unhappy, mentally or emotionally.”

He is healthy and fairly well developed; of sensitive, emotional nature, but self-controlled; mentally he is receptive and aggressive by turns, sometimes uncritical, sometimes analytical.  His temper is equable, and he is strongly affectionate.  Very fond of music and other arts, but not highly imaginative.

Of sexual inversion in the abstract he says he has no views, but he thus sums up his moral attitude:  “I presume that, if it is there, it is there for use or abuse, as men please.  I condemn gratification of bodily desire at the expense of others, in whatever form it may take.  I condemn it no more in its inverted form than in the ordinary.  I believe that affection between persons of the same sex, even when it includes the sexual passion and its indulgences, may lead to results as splendid as human nature can ever attain to.  In short, I place it on an absolute equality with love as ordinarily understood.”

HISTORY V.—­S.W., aged 64, English, musical journalist.  The communication which follows (somewhat abbreviated) was written before S.W. had heard or read anything about sexual inversion, and when he still believed that his own case was absolutely unique.

“I am the son of a clergyman, and lived for the first thirteen years of my life in the country town where I was born.  Then my father became the vicar of a country village, where I lived until I went out into the world at the age of 18.  As during the whole of this time my father had a few pupils, I was educated with them, and never went to school.  I was born, I fancy, with sexual passions about as strong as can well be imagined, and at the same time was very precocious in my entry into the stage of puberty.  Semen began to form a little before my twelfth birthday; hair soon followed, and in a year I was in that respect the equal of an average boy of 15 or 16.  I conversed freely with my companions on the relations of the sexes, but, unlike them, had no personal feeling toward girls.  In time I became conscious that I was different, as I then believed, and believe now, from all other men.  My sexual organs were quite perfect.  But in the frame of a man I had the sexual mind of a female.  I distinctly disclaim the faintest inclination to perform unnatural acts; the idea of committing sodomy would be most disgusting.

“To come to my actual condition of mind:  While totally indifferent to the person of woman (I always enjoyed their friendship