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Nevertheless, there is no doubt, as Freudians elsewhere own, such a thing as a diathesis of inversion. also, IV EVIDENCE MAINLY INDIRECT LET us look at the character of some only A part of some of Whitman's admirers. the poet's personal magnetism, described by Burroughs, the ablest of his personal circle, as incredible and exhaustless, must have been due to recognition in some way by others of a common abnormality, even if only a latent Edward Carpenter is the author of works Love and its Place in a Homogenic Free Society, and The Urning] very similar to literature not uncommon in Germany, literature and in the frankly apologetic for inversion " first named he says that Whitman's comradeis with the homosexual and a ship" generic his resemblance of to the Greek spirit.
Granting Whitman to be a weibling-urning, as is here argued, the mannish female would be the very one to arouse his inclination, if any could ; and conversely the " gette affection of the "suffra- leader (the not rare association of which movement with homosexual and others affirm, feeling Carpenter 1 probably with reason ) for 1 Before me is a German publisher's circular of books on inversion, many of them plainly apologetic or even laudatory. Four, or at any rate, three, of the whole number deal with the relation of homosexuality to the feminist movement while two out of these four are written by women.
Love, a god, Arrayed in crystal sheen without a flaw, Descends his holy shrine, so long untrod, Once more he paces, summons to his throne " Comrades and lovers ! which opened the book In re Walt Whitman, The edited by Whitman's literary executors. lines are by the late J. A. Symonds, whom we may surmise to have been of slightly inverted 1 Days with Walt Whitman, by E. Carpenter. 36 WALT WHITMAN'S ANOMALY disposition because he honourably restrained, no doubt known to have collaborated with is Havelock Ellis in a book on sexual inversion, and the latter author speaks of the assistance of a literary friend who was himself inverted.