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 As has been said here, the Uranian meets us in no other career and life so plainly and so often as in the directly æsthetic atmosphere. He turns toward the even more spontaneously and successfully than to letters; for literature requires a far firmer Intellectuality than is demanded in painting, sculpture or music. Indeed, the Intersexual, though a long way from being (in the scornful phrase of the of the philistine) "good for nothing else" except art, seems often to us not as "good for anything else. He is aesthetically receptive, because of his natural predilection for what is concretely beautiful. He is productive in them because the finer uranian nature inclines to produce and to diffuse, even subsconsciously, what is beautiful. Again, in creating out of marble or on canvas the beauty of the male physique, the uranian utters his sexual creed. Generally he cannot publish it to the world any more plainly, and not more sympathetically. He turns to his chisel, to his palette, to his score, to his pianoforte, as a refuge. His physique is often adapted to only such a life. The relative unintellectuality and emotionality of several of the arts are consonant with his type, be what inspires him valuable or trivial, a jewel or paste.

Fortunate is that æsthetic homosexual who can really live a life of art, professionally and completely. A thousand traits