LOVE OP COMRADES

But, forsaldng thèse inspirational hdghts for a moment, he has written a book, Intermediate Types atnong Primitive Folk, in which he gives in succinct and popular form the results of such investigations as hâve been made, chiefly by continental psychologists and anthropologists, conceming what is commonly known as the Uranian type, its characteristics and its place in social devdopment. It may be said at once that he not only popularises thèse results, adding original suggestions of his own, but also places the whole subject on a higher plane than that of the cUnical laboratory, touches it with romance, and, as is his wont, deals with it that Love may be glorified. What is the " intermediate sex " ?

In hmnan physiology, sex is clearly difierentiated, though even on this plane there are intermediate tj^s ; but in human psychology the sex-characteristics are not nearly so stable. There are men who, psychologically, are more women than men ; and there are women who, similarly, are more men than women. In some cases — and it is held by many observers that their number is rapidly on the increase — the masculine and féminine éléments in psychological make-up are so equally balanced that they show an intermediate psychological type which is sometimes compared with the " neuters" in the beehive.

Usually there is a high degree of sympathy between physiological sex and psychological sex ; and notoriously there are many men and women