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The fact that a man is engrossed in severely scientific professions does not always mean a quiet or virile vita sexualis—as often has been pointed out. At the bar, on the bench, in the laboratory, in most abstruse and austere branches of intellectual labour, among inventors, perfecters of scientific principles and processes; in chemistry, in metallurgy, in everything—we come face to face with the Intersexual. Such types are likely to be homosexuals without vivid idealism. The same remark applies to the industrialist. A striking case of this last type was Alfred Krupp, the millionaire German manufacturer. Krupp was much a man of pleasure. The island of Capri and a fine yacht were his homosexual homes. He was pederastic. The tragic end of his career, for which scandal the indiscretion and the persecution of others were mainly responsible, were closely related to Krupp's "philosyrphetic" nature and crude sexual tastes.

Recently the alert "Committee" in Berlin, already mentioned, succeded in making a remarkable "census" of the students in the great Technical School, in Charlottenburg, as to the proportion of homosexual young men in that institution. The showing was between one and two percent, a result closely conforming to other statistics of Germanic uranianism.

A remarkable proportion of physicians and surgeons are homosexual; fully (Iranians, or Dionysian-Uranians. The contingent "census" of any city points this out. Life in the medical-schools is not hostile to the instinct. The doctor often loses all sense of sexual charm in the feminine psychos, and a woman's physique ceases to rouse his sexual excitement. This is especially true of doctors devoted to women's diseases. The physician appreciates peculiarly the weakness, the limitations,