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The inverts when they are very small show all the signs of 

 modesty before one of their own sex. This modesty, unless 

 eradicated at college or concealed from prudence, persists 

 throughout life. They are extremely boastful when they begin 

 to overmaster it. After they have madly given themselves up 

 to unisexuality they lose that modesty and prefer rather the 

 contrary. The modesty of a woman of bad life is not that of 

 an honorable or delicate and high-minded woman. 



I have not sufficient material to study the question of dor- 

 mitory life. The tales and confessions of inverts are upon this 

 subject worthy of little credence. Inverts,' as I have said be- 

 fore and shall again repeat, are liars, and in speaking of their 

 childhood they seek to exculpate themselves or to make them- 

 selves interesting by virtue of their passion and ignominy. 



I shall only remark that certain children are not interested in 

 the other children. They may thus pass through the boarding 

 school without being attracted to their comrades of their own 

 age. They love either the big boys who most of the time do 

 not pay any attention to them or the domestics or the masters. 

 It is evident that these children would never be in danger. 

 Their affection for their masters would almost always only fortify 

 them in their desire for study. They are the children who do 

 not regard themselves as children. In their dreams they are 

 already great persons. 



Other inverts as is well known, always love some one (or 

 ones) of their own age. They are the homosexuals. They 

 have the passion of similarity. They are perhaps among the 

 less effeminate. I should like to emphasize this fact : the in- 

 verts cannot be effeminate as the effeminate can be heterosexual. 

 It is probably easier to pervert an effeminate person than to 

 make an invert effeminate. 



The licentious, vaunting or diseased inverts have had the 

 honor of so much publicity that the others are as yet little 

 known. These attain an intellectual and moral maturity with- 

 out considering sex the pivot of the universe. They have noth- 

 ing to complain of in their lot. They have to fulfil their 

 mission here below and they do their best. There are also 



