The intermediate sex : a study of some transitional types of men and women / by Edward Carpenter.

  • Carpenter, Edward, 1844-1929.
Date:
1918
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Credit: The intermediate sex : a study of some transitional types of men and women / by Edward Carpenter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and unworthy—some perhaps exhibiting through their double temperament a rare and beautiful flower of humanity, others a perverse and tangled ruin. Before the facts of Nature we have to preserve a certain humility and reverence; nor rush in with our preconceived and obstinate assump- tions. Though these gradations of human type have always, and among all peoples, been more or less known and recognised, yet their frequency to-day, or even the concentration of attention on them, may be the indication of some important change actually in progress. We do zof know, in fact, what possible evolutions are to come, or what new forms, of permanent place and value, are being already slowly differentiated from the surrounding mass of humanity. It may be that, as at some past period of evolution the worker-bee was without doubt differentiated from the two ordinary bee-sexes, so at the present time certain new types of human kind may be emerging, which will have an important part to play in the societies of the future—even though for the moment their appearance is attended by a good deal of confusion and misapprehension. It may be so; or it may not. We do not know; and the