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 medica