[66] In this relation it is curious to note what one of Casper-Liman's correspondents says about the morals of North America (_op. cit._, vol. i. p. 173). "Half a year after my return I went to North America, to try my fortune. There the unnatural vice in question is more ordinary than it is here; and I was able to indulge my passions with less fear of punishment or persecution. The American's tastes in this matter resemble my own; and I discovered, in the United States, that I was always immediately recognised as a member of the confraternity." The date of this man's visit to America was the year 1871-72. He had just returned from serving as a volunteer in the great Franco-German war of 1870-71. [67] Not included in the "Complete Poems and Prose." It will be found in "Leaves of Grass," Boston, 1860-1861. [68] The two last are from "Drum-Taps." [69] This I cannot find in "Complete Poems and Prose." It is included in the Boston edition, 1860-61, and the Camden edition, 1876. [70] "Drum-Taps." Complete Poems, p. 247. [71] _Ibid._, p, 238. [72] "Leaves of Grass." Complete Poems, p. 107. [73] Complete Poems, p. 109. Compare, "I hear it was charged against me," _ibid._, p. 107. [74] Complete Poems, p. 110. [75] Camden edition, 1876, p. 127. Complete Poems, p. 99. Compare "Democratic Vistas," Complete Prose, p. 247, note. [76] These prose passages are taken from "Democratic Vistas," cited above, p. 119, note. [77] While these sheets were going through the press, I communicated Whitman's reply to a judicious friend, whose remarks upon it express my own opinion more clearly and succinctly than I have done above: "I do not feel that this answer throws light on the really interesting question; does the sentiment of 'Calamus' represent, in its own way, the ideal which we should aim at impressing on passionate affections between men, as certainly liable to take other objectionable forms? Is there sufficient affinity between the actual and the ideal for this to be practicable? That is what I have never felt sure about when we have discussed these matters. But I do not feel that my doubts have been resolved in any negative direction by Walt Whitman." [78] Kelts, Scythians, Dorians, Tartars, Normans. [79] It ought to be borne in mind that they are by no means invariably complicated with abnormal sexuality, but quite as often with normal sexuality in some extravagant shape, as well as with other kinds of moral aberration.