Hence the fallacy aforesaid. A third factor, genius, is present, and therefore Bertz's enu meration (following Hirschfeld's description of the sexual invert) of somatic and psychical stigmata is not strict evidence of homo sexuality at all, or at any rate only corrobo rative evidence of minor value. It is true that the second greatest poet America has to show was as vain as a peacock, true that he went grey prematurely but similar traits have been found in men of genius whom there is no reason at all to suspect of sexual abnormality. It will clarify the discussion, then, if we admit only such evidence as bears upon inversion, and inversion only.

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