I may here refer to my own observations on this point in the preface.
Mantegazza (_Gli Amori degli Uomini_) remarks that in his own restricted circle he is acquainted with "a French publicist, a German poet, an Italian statesman, and a Spanish jurist, all men of exquisite taste and highly cultivated mind," who are sexually inverted.

Krafft-Ebing, in the preface to his _Psychopathia Sexualis_, referring to the "numberless" communications he has received from these "step-children of nature," remarks that "the majority of the writers are men of high intellectual and social position, and often possess very keen emotions." Raffalovich (_Uranisme_, p.

197) names among distinguished inverts, Alexander the Great, Epaminondas, Virgil, the great Conde, Prince Eugene, etc.

(The question of Virgil's inversion is discussed in the _Revista di Filologia_, 1890, fas.

7-9, but I have not been able to see this review.) Moll, in his _Beruehmte Homosexuelle_ (1910, in the series of _Grenzfragen des Nerven- und Seelenlebens_) discusses the homosexuality of a number of eminent persons, for the most part with his usual caution and sagacity; speaking of the alleged homosexuality of Wagner he remarks, with entire truth, that "the method of arguing the existence of homosexuality from the presence of feminine traits must be decisively rejected." Hirschfeld has more recently included in his great work _Die Homosexualitaet_ (1913, pp.