The remarkable notion of blowing one’s soul into another _a posteriori_, is traced by the author to primitive beliefs. Animals showed no objection to these love-offerings; and men who ascribed magical properties to urine and fæces undoubtedly lacked any feeling of revulsion against these excreta.... Since the anus was looked upon as the portal for angry demons, why should not the benevolent magical power of heroes be introduced the same way? “The notion which led to the development of pæderasty as a State Institution among the Dorians, could not long endure. It had to give way finally.... But boy love persisted as a widespread custom and stood throughout antiquity and throughout the whole extent of Greek culture as a necessary feature of decent superior Greek citizenship. The Christian church fought the heathen custom from the beginning and was the first to drive pæderasty from Christian society; unable to root it out by spiritual means, it adopted criminal punishment in the year 342.” That is, briefly, the philologist’s account, who also states that during the pre-Doric period (_Homer_, for instance) the custom of boy love had as yet no roots as an Institution. Footnote 50: _Zur Psychologie der Vita Sexualis, Allg. Zeitschr. f. Psychol._, 1894. Footnote 51: I am unable to corroborate the contention of _Ferenczi_ in his _Zur Nosologie der männlichen Homosexualität_ (_Homoerotik_), published in _Zeitschrift f. ärztl. Psychoanalyse_, Vol. II, 189, 1914. He assumes two forms of homosexuality: 1. _the passive subject-homoerotic_, who represents an inborn state and stands for an intermediary type in _Hirschfeld’s_ sense and is incurable and 2. the _active object-homoerotic_, a type he describes as a special form of compulsion neurosis. The passive type never consults the physician for his trouble,—he is a genuine homosexual; the active type is unhappy over his condition, he shows the typical symptoms. Both share in common the peculiarity that their own sex is an essential condition for the attainment of their love-object and remains so throughout life. I have seen many homosexuals who are interchangeably active or passive. On the other hand I have seen active homosexuals who were very much troubled over their condition and passive homosexuals who have been cured. Incidentally I may mention that _Ferenczi_ borrows thoughts from my essay on _Masken der Homosexualität_, without indicating the source. Since _Freud_ has decreed against me his anathema, the narrower Freudian school looks upon my work as common property to be appropriated at will by any one. Footnote 52: _Handbuch der Sexualwissenschaften_, p. 664. Footnote 53: A new orientation in matters of sexual morality is on the way in spite of tremendous opposition. I refer those interested to _Eulenburg’s_ excellent work, _Moral und Sexualität_ (Verlag, Marcus & Webster, Bonn, 1916).