he genital
formation of inverts. There are, however, frequent abnormalities
of proportion in their figures, the hands and feet being
noticeably smaller and more shapely, the waist more marked, the
body softer and less muscular. Almost invariably there is either
cranial malformation or the head approaches the feminine in type
and shape."

ARTISTIC AND OTHER APTITUDES.--All avocations are represented among
inverts. Among the subjects here dealt with are found, at one end of the
scale, numerous manual workers, and at the other end an equal number,
sometimes of aristocratic family, who exercise no profession at all. There
are 12 physicians, 9 men of letters, at least 7 are engaged in commercial
life, 6 are artists, architects, or composers, 4 are or have been actors.
These figures cannot give any clue to the relative extent of inversion in
various occupations, but they indicate that no class of occupation
furnishes a safeguard against inversion.

There are, however, certain avocations to which inverts seem especially
called.[219] One of the chief of these is literature. The apparent
predominance of physicians is easily explicable. The frequency with which
literature is represented is probably more genuine. Here, indeed, inverts
seem to find the highest degree of success and reputation. At least half a
dozen of my subjects are successful men of letters, and I could easily
add others by going outside the group of Histories included in this study.
They especially cultivate those regions of _belles-lettres_ which lie on
the borderland between prose and verse. Though they do not usually attain
much eminence in poetry, they are often very accomplished writers of
verse. They may be attracted to history, but rarely attempt tasks of great
magnitude, involving much patient labor, though to this rule there are
exceptions. Pure science seems to have relatively little attraction for
the homosexual.[220]

An examination of my Histories reveals the interesting fact that 45 of the
subjects, or in the proportion of 56 per cent., possess artistic aptitudes
of varying degree. Galton found, from the investigation of nearly 1000
persons, that the average showing artistic tastes in England was only
about 30 per cent. It must also be said that my figures are probably below
the truth, as no special point was made of investigating the matter, and
also that in some cases the artistic ability is of high order.

It is