"I have good reason to believe," he writes, "that it is far more prevalent among them than among the white people of any nation.

If inversion is to be regarded as a penalty of 'civilization' this is remarkable.

Perhaps, however, the Negro, _relatively to his capacity_, is more highly civilized than we are; at any rate his civilization has been thrust upon him, and not acquired through the long throes of evolution.

Colored inverts desire white men as a rule, but are not averse to men of their own race.

I believe that 10 per cent, of Negroes in the United States are sexually inverted." [38] Among the Papuans of German New Guinea, where the women have great power, marriage is late, and the young men are compelled to live separated from the women in communal houses.