observations, that the 50% that he assigns to the exclusively heterosexual might well be smaller, were it not for the effect of social restraints.

Dr. Evans, in ONE Institute Quarterly, Fall, 1961, calls attention to a significant finding from a scientific work on sexual behavior in animals and men: when we consider animals, as they are arranged from the bottom of the evolutionary ladder to man, we find decreased control over sexual behavior by sex hormones and increased influence by the cerebral cortex. In short, sex in the higher animals, especially in man, is a part of our natures in which the mind, as well as the body, is very much involved. Unless we follow blindly along those pathways of established custom which society tries so hard to ingrain in us from our earliest years, our way of life must be invented and created afresh. The one who is oriented to both sexes, and who seeks to create and to follow a way of life on that basis which is not just somewhere around the bottom of the evolutionary ladder, faces difficulties that would afright a Hercules. Many try to do so; perhaps they must try, from inner necessity. For the penalty for failing to fulfill your real nature is a dreary, empty life.

Since our sexual nature is bound up with the workings of the mind, there is some room for choice. In such a case, one must try to see, if he can, which way his nature really points; and either scurry back to the heterosexual fold, or move to the exposed and problematic position of the homosexual and there work out his destiny.

LAMENT

Now that the willow buds fulfill the promise

But lately made by robins in the snow,

And swallows gather clay to weave and mortise

Nest in the chimney, scattering soot below:

I watch the night take up the moon for pencil And chalk with stars the blackboard of the sky And learn the sum of Love which I'd forgotten Must equal grief and longing 'til I die.

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James Ramp

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