In 1886 Sir Richard Burton added to
his translation of the _Arabian Nights_ a Terminal Essay on the same
subject. In 1894 Edward Carpenter privately printed in Manchester a
pamphlet entitled _Homogenic Love_, in which he criticised various
psychiatric views of inversion at that time current, and claimed that the
laws of homosexual love are the same as those of heterosexual love,
urging, however, that the former possesses a special aptitude to be
exalted to a higher and more spiritual level of comradeship, so fulfilling
a beneficent social function. More recently (1907) Edward Carpenter
published a volume of papers on homosexuality and its problems, under the
title of _The Intermediate Sex_, and later (1914) a more special study of
the invert in early religion and in warfare, _Intermediate Types among
Primitive Folk_.
In 1896 the most comprehensive book so far written on the subject in
England was published in French by Mr. Andre Raffalovich (in Lacassagne's
_Bibliotheque de Criminologie_), _Uranisme et Unisexualite_. This book
dealt chiefly with congenital inversion, publishing no new cases, but
revealing a wide knowledge of the matter.
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