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Ye were too childlike, too innocent, too hopeful 
of mankind, that ye did proclaim your pearly gos-
pel to the swinish multitude ! 
The old law, silence, is the master :  therefore 
whoso looketh for my name, let him find it darkling 
in these lines of power ! 
 
R. is the Father, W. the Son, 
And E. the Holy Spirit, three and one : 
But if they esoterically are read  
My equal name shall glitter out instead. 
 
Yes !  we must not sing hymns to Pan to-
day :  we must pretend to be German professors, 
with a keen scientific interest in these very re-
markable phenomena which look so much like 
madness, and which our own perfect sanity and 
the effulgence (possibly a shade alto) of our dis-
creet and legal passion for our Limburger-tainted 
hausfrau hide from our fuller comprehension. 
As is right, therefore : 
In nomine v. Krafft-Ebing, v. Schrenk-Notzing, 
et Havelock Ellis, Amen. 
 
The Holy Trinity (invoked above) have brought 
within the knowledge of the English-speaking races 
all those facts connected with ‘ sexual perversion ’ 
(in its infinite variety) which occur in the diseased. 
The late Sir Richard Burton has informed us of 
all that need be known on the subject in the matter 
of its historical, geographical, ethnographical dis-
tribution :  and his Priapeia, and the verses of the 
and Hermaphrodite of Panormita, form a valuable 
commentary on his remarks.  Ulrichs and Sy-
monds have treated the subject sympathetically 
(though rather timidly and as it were with the cold 
ardour of the special pleader) in its modern prac-
tical aspects :  but with the exception of Verlaine in 
Hombres, Wilde in ‘ Teleny ’, the pseudonymous (as