6o Journal of Comparative Neurology. 



Those who are indifferent, who may develop homosex- 

 ually or heterosexually with almost equal ease, are often guided 

 by the restrictions imposed upon them or by the liberty per- 

 mitted them. If they find it impossible to form a union with a 

 woman without irksomeness, restlessness or reproach, they will 

 the more easily fall into homosexuality. If education (often 

 ignorant of what it is doing and preparing for) and if the thou- 

 sand chances and accidents of life act in so different ways on so 

 many men, what shall we now say of absolute homosexuality, 

 of uranism and of absolute heterosexuality? Shall we not 

 change our point of view a little without giving up the notion of 

 Uranism, or congenital sexual inversion ? The uranists and 

 the prococious and rabid heterosexuals have never had a chance. 

 This is my theory. 



No one has any doubt about their tendencies or their des- 

 tinies. No one has done anything to divert their sexuality. The 

 attempt has been made perhaps, and that much too late, to 

 subdue their sexuality, but what has been accomplished against 

 homosexuality ? Nothing. 



The most precocious little heterosexual might be rendered 

 psychically hermaphrodite by an education adapted to his case ; 

 and the most inverted little uranist might also be rendered psy- 

 chically hermaphrodite, that is to say, more like the hetero- 

 sexual, if we knew how to train our children or those of others. 

 The heterosexual child does not concern us here. What does 

 concern us is to indicate, or to try to indicate, what education 

 can do for a uranist. 



Before all, how, by what signs, is the uranist to be dis- 

 tinguished ? I would appeal to all those who have devoted 

 themselves to the education of children or who have known 

 uranistic children and beg them to recall the indices given by 

 these children and by their parents. 



I have already spoken of the precocious modesty of the in- 

 verts. This is a sign to be noted. Are the children ashamed 

 in the presence of a man ; do they hesitate to undress or to 

 show their bodies in the presence of a man in order to satisfy 

 even their most elementary needs ? 



