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Edward Carpenter, in his thoughtful treatise on homosexuals—whom he calls the Intermediate Sex—justly maintains that it is impossible, by a sweeping gesture to dismiss these types as good or bad, simply because they are different.

The subtleties and complexities of nature cannot be dispatched in this off-hand manner.

As he expresses it, "the great probability is that, as in any other class of human beings, there will be among these too, good and bad, high and low, worthy and unworthy—some perhaps exhibiting through their double temperament a rare and beautiful flower of humanity, others a perverse and tangled ruin."

It is Carpenter's opinion that the defect of the male Uranian, or Urning, is not sensuality—but rather sentimentality. The lower, more ordinary types of Urning are often extremely sentimental; the superior type strangely, almost incredibly emotional; but neither as a rule (though, of course, there must be exceptions) are so sensual as the average normal man.

"The immense capacity of emotional love represents, of course, a great driving force. Whether in the individual or in society, love is eminently creative. It is their great genius for attachment which gives to the best Uranian