to me with one I loved very devotedly and who also loved me to that degree; but I think not otherwise.  I am an artist by temperament and choice, fond of all beautiful things, especially the male human form; of active, slight, muscular build; and sympathetic, but somewhat indecisive character, though possessing self-control.

“I cannot regard my sexual feelings as unnatural or abnormal, since they have disclosed themselves so perfectly naturally and spontaneously within me.  All that I have read in books or heard spoken about the ordinary sexual love, its intensity and passion, lifelong devotion, love at first sight, etc., seems to me to be easily matched by my own experiences in the homosexual form; and, with regard to the morality of this complex subject, my feeling is that it is the same as should prevail in love between man and woman, namely:  that no bodily satisfaction should be sought at the cost of another person’s distress or degradation.  I am sure that this kind of love is, notwithstanding the physical difficulties that attend it, as deeply stirring and ennobling as the other kind, if not more so; and I think that for a perfect relationship the actual sex gratifications (whatever they may be) probably hold a less important place in this love than in the other.”

HISTORY VIII.—­M.N., aged 30.  “My grandfather might be said to be of abnormal temperament, for, though of very humble origin, he organized and carried out an extremely arduous mission work and became an accomplished linguist, translating the Bible into an Eastern tongue and compiling the first dictionary of that language.  He died, practically of overwork, at the age of 45.  He was twice married, my father being his third son by the second wife.  I believe that two, if not more, of the family (numbering seven in all) were inverted, and the only one of them to marry was my father.  My grandmother was the last representative of an old and very ‘wild’ Irish family.  She died at an advanced age, of paralysis.  My father was 36 and my mother 21 at the time of their marriage.  I was born three years after and was their only child.  The marriage proved a most unhappy one, they being utterly unsuited to each other in every way.

“My father’s health during the first years of his marriage was very delicate, and I have reason to believe that it had been undermined in certain ways by his life abroad.  I understand I was born with slight gonorrheal affection, and as a child my health was very indifferent.  This latter may have been brought about by the peculiarly unhappy and unnatural life I led.  I had no companions of my own age, and did not even attend any school until after my mother’s death.  My father superintended my education up to that time, and I had free access to a large and very varied library, and a great deal of solitary leisure to enjoy it in.  There were a number of medical and scientific books in it, which were