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exclusively by those similarly situated. The wisdom of permitting such a course, even if it were possible, is questionable."

“The definition. of prejudice as, dislike of the unlike is singuJarly appropriate in this connection. Society has a way of judging groups by the conduct of their most unsavory members. To too large a section of the public, the stereotype of the homosexual is that of the preening, mincing, effeminate individual who gaily cavorts through life ogling the public in much the manner that a female prostitute is expected to behave."

"Society fails to take into account the orderly and useful lives of the countless individuals who, save for their pyschosexual difficulties, fail to attract even a passing glance, and who, if misfortune does not overtake them, go to their graves sincerely mourned as useful citizens. Should, however, an untoward incident involve the exposure of such men, the public clamor for their disgrace and punishment is much louder than when an exhibitionist “fairy”' falls into the toils of the law. That is the way of the world."

George W. Henry; M.D., Psychiatrist in Chief, George W. Henry Foundation, Inc., New York: 6th Annual Report, 1954.

"Although it was formulated nearly four decades ago, the major thesis of the Second Dialogue in "Corydon" is in accord with present-day interpretations of human sexual behavior. People who say that homosexual activities are biologically abnormal and unnatural are wrong. Some of the evidence that led Mr. Gide to this belief has been modified by more recent findings, but his final conclusion stands." Frank Beach, Department of Psychology, Yale University, in "Comments on the Second Dialogue," CORYDON, by André Gide: Farrar, Strauss & Co., 1950.

The real tragedy is the tragedy. of the man who never in is life braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his fuli

stature. -Arnold Bennett

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Judgments & Prophecies

TIME

THE WEEKLY NEWSMAGAZINE FEBRUARY 14, 1955

LEARNED HAND, retired chief judge of the Second Circuit United States Court of Appeals, speaking before the annual meeting in New York of the", American Jewish Committee.y

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best answer is not so much in their immoral qualitý às in the fact, that they are inherently unstable because they are at war with our only trustworthy way of living in accord with the facts. For it is only by trial and error, by insistent scrutiny and by readiness to re-examine presently accredited conclusions that we have risen, so far as in fact we have risen, from our brutish ancestors. and in our loyalty to these habits lies our only chance. not merely of progress. but even of survival. They were not indeed a part of our aboriginal endowment: Man, as he emerged, was not prodigally equipped to master the infinite diversity of his environment. Obviously enough of us did manage to get through, but it has been a statistical survival. for the individual's native powers of adjustment are by no means enough for his personal safety, any more than are those of other creatures. The precipitate of our experience is, far from absolute verity, and our exasperated resentment at all dissent is a sure index of our doubts.

All discussion, all debate. all dissidence tends to question, and in conse quence to upset, existing convictions: that is precisely its purpose and its justification. He is, indeed, a "subversive" who disputes those precepts that I most treasure and seeks to persuade me to substitute his own. He may be of those to whom any forcible sanction of conformity is anathema; yet it remains true that he is trying to bring about my apostasy, and I hate him just in proportion as I fear, his success, Heretics have been hateful from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed and butchered; but it has generally proved impossible to smother them, and when it has not, the society that has succeeded has al ways declined.