Abstract

Science

This article literary appraises the book "Intermediate Types Among Primitive Folk: A Study in Social Evolution," by Edward Carpenter. The present volume, which may be described as a study of the influence of sex on the social progress of mankind, the author has brought together and extended a number of his earlier papers upon that class of inverted or perverted individuals that are described as intermediates. In the first part are four chapters dealing with the intermediate in the service of religion, as prophet or priest, as wizard or witch, as inventor of the arts and drafts, or even as one in a double sexual role, in the sense of combining the temperamental qualities of both men and women. The second and concluding section presents an interesting study of the intermediate as a warrior and deals particularly with comrade-love.