ired 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 t