to right reason, pure hygiene, and the moral law; and I can but hope and believe that the Divine Power in which I have endeavored to trust will in the future, as it has done in the past, working by natural methods and through the current events of my life, amend and control my sex life and conduct it to safe and honorable issues.”

HISTORY II.—­A.B., married, good general health, dark hair, fair complexion, short-sighted, and below medium height.  Parents both belong to healthy families, but the mother suffered from nerves during early years of married life, and the father, a very energetic and ambitious man, was cold, passionless, and unscrupulous.  A.B. is the oldest child; two of the brothers and sisters are slightly abnormal, nervously.  But, so far as is known, none of the family has ever been sexually abnormal.

A.B. was a bright, intelligent child, though inclined to be melancholy (and in later years prone to self-analysis).  At preparatory school was fairly forward in studies, at public school somewhat backward, at University suddenly took a liking to intellectual pursuits.  Throughout he was slack at games.  Has never been able to learn to swim from nervousness.  Can whistle well.  Has always been fond of reading, and would like to have been an author by profession.  He married at 24, and has had two children, both of whom showed congenital physical abnormalities.

Before the age of 7 or 8 A.B. can remember various trifling incidents.  “One of the games I used to play with my sister,” he writes, “consisted in pretending we were ‘father and mother’ and were relieving ourselves at the w.c.  We would squat down in various parts of the room, prolong the simulated act, and talk.  I do not remember what our conversation was about, nor whether I had an erection.  I used also to make water from a balcony into the garden, and in other unusual places.

“The first occasion on which I can recollect experiencing sensations or emotions similar in character to later and more developed feelings of desire was at the age of about 7 or 8, when I was a dayboy at a large school in a country town and absolutely innocent as to deed, thought, or knowledge.  I fell in love with a boy with whom I was brought in contact in my class, about my own age.  I remember thinking him pretty.  He paid me no attention.  I had no distinct desire, except a wish to be near him, to touch him, and to kiss him.  I blushed if I suddenly saw him, and thought of him when absent and speculated on my chances of seeing him again.  I was put into a state of high ecstasy when he invited me to join him and some friends one summer evening in a game of rounders.

“At the age of 8 I was told by my father’s groom where babies came from and how they were produced. (I already knew the difference in sexual organs, as my sister and I were bathed in the same room.) He told me no details about erection,