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Rh {|
 * rowspan="4" | The Human Male
 * rowspan="4" |
 * | (1)
 * | Man or Dioning
 * | Uraniaster, when he has acquired the tastes of the Urning.
 * (2)
 * Urning
 * Mannling. Weibling. Zwischen-Urning. Virilised Urning.
 * (3)
 * Uranodioning.
 * (4)
 * Hermaphrodite.
 * }
 * Uranodioning.
 * (4)
 * Hermaphrodite.
 * }
 * (4)
 * Hermaphrodite.
 * }
 * }
 * }

Broadly speaking, the male includes two main species: Dioning and Urning, men with normal and men with abnormal instincts. What, then, constitutes the distinction between them? How are we justified in regarding them as radically divergent?

Ulrichs replies that the phenomenon of sexual inversion is to be explained by physiology, and particularly by the evolution of the embryo. Nature fails to