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184 was little in it for the matter of that, which could be set forth here as outwardly dramatic. Whoever has been able, by nature or accident, to know, in a fairly intimate degree, the workings of the similisexual and uranistic heart; whoever has marvelled at them, either in sympathy or antipathy, even if merely turning over the pages of psychiatric treatises dealing with them—he would find nothing specially unfamiliar in such biography. I will mention here, as one of the least of the sudden discoveries of that afternoon, the fact that Imre had some knowledge of such literature, whether to his comfort or greater melancholy, according to his authour. Also he had formally consulted one eminent Viennese specialist who certainly was much wiser—far less positive—and not less calmin than my American theorist.

The great Viennese psychiater had not recommended marriage to Imre: recognizing in Imre's 'case' that inborn homosexualism that will not be dissipated by wedlock; but perhaps only intensifies, and so is surer to