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Nearly every page has been rewritten or enlarged and the Index of Authors consulted has more than doubled in length.

I had not at first proposed to devote a whole volume to sexual inversion

Later, in 1897, the same term was adopted, I believe for the first time publicly in English, in the present work.

Krafft-Ebing's methods were open to some objection.

Public distinction by no means necessarily implies any fine degree of private morality.

It is, no doubt, not difficult to account for this retardation in the investigation of sexual inversion in women.

There is no frequent relationship between homosexuality and insanity, and such homosexuality as is found in asylums is mostly of a spurious character.

We have to recognize the influence of professional and personal bias and the influence of environment.

The warmth of the pontiff communicated itself to the crowd, and the enthusiasm of the people broke out several times ere he concluded his address.

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In the twenty-first year of Henry VIII. an act was passed, rendering it high-treason: those found guilty of it, were to be boiled to death.

Unhappily, however, for the parish clerk, the ghost was induced to make some promises which were the means of utterly destroying its reputation.