THE INTERMEDIATE SEX

who are colourless, so to speak, and passionless from the sex point of view. Where, however, there is discrepancy between the physiology and the psychology oi an individual, we get the phenomenon of sex-inversion.

It is probable that thèse intermediate types hâve played a larger and more important part in the religions and social development of the race than is commonly realised. For example, there is considérable ground for believing that in early times the prophets and the priests were largely recniited from this class. For it is consistent with the primitive habit of argument that a pecuUarity which distinguished a man from among his f ellows should be attributed to some kind of divine possession. A man who, because of his peculiar psychological condition, displayed no désire or aptitude for the manly pursuits of hunting and fighting, but either consorted with the women or, strangely isolated from his sex, went brooding about alone on the hills and in the woods, watching the stars, turning his own thoughts over and over in his mind, was not (as we might at first suppose) despised among the people, but came rather to be regarded, just because of his extraordinary manner of Uving, as a supernatural being and a person of conséquence. Perhaps it would be truer to say that at first he was despised and rejected of the men, but that in course of time, evidencing spécial and not unserviceable powers — as would be likely

CHELD OF URANUS

DOt only because of his féminine faculty oi intmtkio and intimate nnderstanding, but also hrcanse of Ids kno\riedge of weather-^igns and lierbs pidced np in his scditary wanderings — ^he came to be hekl in high estem and Ireated with

In a poem, " O ChiSd of Uranns/' ^ Carpenter describes tfais type:

0 child of Uianos, isanderer down ail times» iXartiing, front farthest âges of the Earth the same Stiuge tender figure, foU of gtaice and pify,

Yet ovtcKSt and mîsandccstood of ni6n — Tltf Wornui-scMil wittiin a lian's form dîvdling, Sd geatfe; gracÎDus» dîgnîfied, oomplete, With man's strength to perform, and pride to suffer vithoat sîgn.

And femînîne seositiveness to the last fibre of being ; Stiange twke-boni. having entranœ to both world»— Loved» lored by eîthor sex« And free of aU their lore !

Locd of aie love ¥rbidi mks tbis changing world« I^vssing ail partial loves, this one complète —

1 see thee 'vciiere for centuries liioti hast walked, LoD^, tiie worid of men,

Saving, redeeming, diamog ail to tiiee, Yet oatcast, slandeied, pointed ol tt» moh, Misjndged and crucified.

Dear Son of Heaven — ^long-sufîering wanderer through tiie wfldemess of âvîlization — The day draiRFS nigh wben from thèse mists of s^es Thy fonn in glory dad shall leappear.

Among primitive peoples there is but Uttle