SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

difierentiation between the functions of prophet, priest, wizard, and witch-doctor ; the * ' medicineman ' ' is said to be the predecessor of both king and priest ; and rapidly accumulating évidence goes to show that he was usually of this intermediate type.

While the homosexual person has this conspicuous place in the history and development of religion — and not in primitive times alone — a place not less prominent must be given to him (and to her) in the development also of social life. They appear as the inventors of the arts and crafts. In early societies the normal men are occupied with the chase and with battle, the normal women with the home, family, and agriculture ;

but when the man came along who did not want to fight — who was perhaps more inclined to nm away — and who did not partLcularly care about hunting, he necessarily discovered some other interest and occupation— composing songs or observing the qualities of herbs or the procession of the stars. Similarly with the women who did not care about house-work and childrearing. The non-warlike men and the non-domestic women, in short, sought new outlets for their énergies. They sought différent occupations from those of the quite ordinary man and woman — as in ^ct they do today ; and so they became the initiators of new activities. They became students of life and nature, inventors and teachers of arts and crafts, or wizards and sorcerers ; they became diviners and seers, or revealers of the gods and religion ; they became medicine-men and healers, prophets and prophetesses, and so ultimately laid the