A PROBLEM IN MODERN ETHICS

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PROBLEM IN MODERN ETHICS

BEING

_AN INQUIRY INTO THE PHENOMENON OF SEXUAL INVERSION_

ADDRESSED ESPECIALLY TO MEDICAL PSYCHOLOGISTS AND JURISTS

BY

JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS

LONDON

1896

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

LIST OF BOOKS CONSULTED vii

INTRODUCTION 1

I. CHRISTIAN OPINION FROM THE AGE OF JUSTINIAN 5

II. VULGAR ERRORS 9

III. LITERATURE: PORNOGRAPHIC AND DESCRIPTIVE: Carlier, _Les deux Prostitutions_ 16

IV. LITERATURE: MEDICO-FORENSIC: _Tardieu_ 21

V. LITERATURE: MEDICO-PSYCHOLOGICAL: Moreau, Tarnowsky, Krafft-Ebing, Lombroso 29

VI. LITERATURE: HISTORICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL: Meier, "A Problem in Greek Ethics"; Rosenbaum, Bastian, Herbert Spencer, Sir Richard Burton, Mantegazza 75

VII. LITERATURE: POLEMICAL: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs 84

VIII. LITERATURE: IDEALISTIC: Walt Whitman 115

IX. EPILOGUE 126

X. SUGGESTIONS UPON LEGISLATION 131

BOOKS CONSULTED.

GIBBON'S =History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.= Chapter XLIV.

F. CARLIER. =Les deux Prostitutions.= Paris, Dentu, 1889.

A. TARDIEU. =Attentats aux Moeurs.= Paris, Billiere, 1878.

J. L. CASPER and CARL LIMAN. =Handbuch der Gerichtlichen Medicin.= Berlin, Hirschwald, 1889.

J. L. CASPER. =Klinische Novellen.= Berlin, Hirschwald, 1863.

P. MORRAU. =Des Aberrations du Sens Genetique.= Paris, Asselin et Houzeau, 1887.

B. TARNOWSKY. =Die krankhaften Erscheinungen des Geschlechtssinnes.= Berlin, Hirschwald, 1886.

Table of contents (by pages)

• 1: A Problem in Modern Ethics by Symonds
• 2: Der Verbrecher in Anthropologischer
• 3: As in the capitals of modern Europe
• 4: No anthropological investigations
• 5: Paul with that recompence of their error which was meet
• 6: Gibbon's remarks upon the legislation of Constantine
• 7: The inverted passion has to be indulged furtively
• 8: The organisation of which it shares in full
• 9: Carlier proceeds to describe the two main classes
• 10: Where legal penalties are heavy enough
• 11: But with more regard for scientific truth than Tardieu
• 12: There are indisputable paederasts
• 13: While treating of acquired sexual inversion
• 14: Devenue par la force des choses hereditaire
• 15: He seems to incline toward the cerebellum
• 16: Even if in the Fijian there were disease
• 17: Moreau classifies sexual inversion with erotomania
• 18: Tarnowsky calls attention to ships
• 19: Tarnowsky has already published this experience
• 20: As a form of inherited neuropathy Belastung
• 21: Is it generic neuropathy or a specific type of that disorder
• 22: We shall discover hereditary taint and onanism
• 23: The number of Urnings in the world
• 24: And were even inclined toward active paederasty
• 25: As represented by Krafft Ebing
• 26: Lombroso traces the growth of justice in criminal affairs
• 27: He explains at first by atavism
• 28: That may often be observed in Urnings
• 29: He also soon perceives that Urnings
• 30: Leads only too often to suicide
• 31: The second is a treatise entitled A Problem in Greek Ethics
• 32: 2 Running eastward the Sotadic Zone narrows
• 33: Which he defines as the Sotadic Zone
• 34: He kept pouring out a series of polemical
• 35: And has cohabited by preference with men
• 36: The male includes two main species Dioning and Urning
• 37: Ulrichs maintains that the body of an Urning is masculine
• 38: When the first erotic dream announced the arrival of puberty
• 39: Long before the age of puberty
• 40: So far Ulrichs is justified in his pleading
• 41: What excellent Dionings they become
• 42: Discover their inborn sexual inversion
• 43: Who are by instinct and congenital diathesis non procreative
• 44: To translate a brief passage from Krafft Ebing
• 45: Says the objector We had better close this conversation
• 46: Whitman describes an enthusiastic type of masculine emotion
• 47: That in his treatment of comradeship
• 48: Therefore the man who wrote Calamus
• 49: Infers such loving comradeship
• 50: Chaste and wholesome and aspiring
• 51: These four categories exist sporadically
• 52: The problem ought to be left to the physician
• 53: The danger that unnatural vices
• 54: In spite of our penal legislation
• 55: FOOTNOTES 1 Vindices Flammae
• 56: And none of these works are pornographic
• 57: Casper and Liman can find no better
• 58: 172 Onanism is a miserable makeshift
• 59: Being slices of the original man
• 60: 59 The first two from Casper Liman