[37] See “Love’s Coming-of-Age,” p. 22.
[38] Pub.: F. A. Davis, Philadelphia, 1901.
[39] Otto Weininger even goes further, and regards the temperament as a natural intermediate form (“Sex and Character,” ch. iv.) See also Appendix, infra, [p. 169].
[40] “Though then before my own conscience I cannot reproach myself, and though I must certainly reject the judgment of the world about us, yet I suffer greatly. In very truth I have injured no one, and I hold my love in its nobler activity for just as holy as that of normally disposed men, but under the unhappy fate that allows us neither sufferance nor recognition I suffer often more than my life can bear.”—Extract from a letter given by Krafft-Ebing.
[41] See “In the Key of Blue,” by J. A. Symonds (Elkin Mathews, 1893).
[42] See Appendix, [pp. 162 and 163].
[43] See also “Love’s Coming-of-Age,” 5th ed., pp. 173, 174.
[44] See “Das Conträre Geschlechtsgefühl,” von Havelock Ellis und J. A. Symonds (Leipzig, 1896).
[45] “Symposium,” Speech of Socrates.
[46] It is interesting in this connection to notice the extreme fervour, almost of romance, of the bond which often unites lovers of like sex over a long period of years, in an unfailing tenderness of treatment and consideration towards each other, equal to that shown in the most successful marriages. The love of many such men, says Moll (p. 119), “developed in youth lasts at times the whole life through. I know of such men, who had not seen their first love for years, even decades, and who yet on meeting showed the old fire of their first passion. In other cases, a close love-intimacy will last unbroken for many years.”