[Richard F. Burton, The Book of a Thousand Nights and a
Night (London: The Burton Club, 1886) 203-254.]
Terminal Essay.
203
C.-PORNOGRAPHY.
HERE it will be advisable to supplement what wa:> :,aid in my
Foreword (p. xv.) concerning the turpiloquium of The Nights.
Readers who ;.z,.ve perused the ten volumes will probably agrct:
with me that the na"ive indecencies of the text are rather gaudisserie
than prurience; and, when delivered with mirth and humour, they
are rather the "excrements of wit " than designed for debauching
the mind.
Crude and indelicate with infantile plainness; even
gross and, at times, "nasty " in their terrible frankness, they
cannot be accused of corrupting suggestiveness or subtle insinua­
tion of vicious sentiment.
Theirs is a coarseness of language, not
of idea; they are indecent, not depraved; and the pure and perfect
naturalness of their nudity seems almost to purify it, showing that
the matter is rather of manners than of morals.
Such throughout
the East is the language of every man, woman and child, from
prince to peasant, from matron to prostitute : all are as the
narve French traveller said of the Japanese : "si grossiers qu'ils
ne s�avent nommer les choses que par lcur nom."
This primitive
3t1ge of l:lnguage sufficed to draw from Lane and Burckhardt
strictures i..1pon the '' most immodest freedom of conversatior, in
Egypt,'' where, as all the world over, there are th1 '-e ;;c:veral
stages for names of things and acts sensual.
First we ha\·e the
mot cm, the popular term, soon followed by the technical anJ
scientific, and, lastly, the literary or figurative nomenclature, which
is often much more immoral bcc,rnse more attractive, suggestive
and seductive than the " raw word."
And let me ob:--en·c that the
highest civilization is now returning to the hngu;-itTC of nature.
La Glu of l\l.
J.
Richcpi11,
;1
Ir..
triumph of the 1calistic sc!',)OI, \\'�
.:nd such "archaic" expression-; as b pctci::-, r11tai11, foutuc ;\ I;;
;jix-qu·i.tre-c.lix; un facctieusc pt'.taradc; tu t'.--- �. foutue de, etc.
—
^^f Laylah wa
204
Eh
bougre
vilain
and so
I
Laylah.
To
forth.*
those critics
of these raw vulgarisms and puerile indecencies
in
who complain
The Nights
I
can reply only by quoting the words said to have been said by
who complained
Dr. Johnson to the lady
his
But
repeat
I
and that
is
there
(p. xvi.)
is
our neighbours
another element
call
Le
It is chiefly
vice contre ?tature
contrary to nature which includes
must
offer details, as
any theme which
And
pologist.
them,
for
in
Madam !'^
The Nights
one of absolute obscenity utterly repugnant to English
readers, even the least prudish.
I
of the naughty words in
—
dictionary "You must have been looking
is
it
connected with what
— as
anything can be
if
Upon
things.^
all
my
does not enter into
plan to ignore
and the Anthro-
interesting to the Orientalist
they, methinks,
this subject
do abundant harm who,
for
shame
or disgust, would suppress the very mention of such matters
in
:
order to combat a great and growing evil deadly to the birth-rate
— the
main-stay of national prosperity
— the
first
requisite
is
careful
As Albert Bollstoedt. Bishop of Ratisbon, rightly says
Quia malum non evitatum nisi cognitum, ideo necesse est cogstudy.
:
noscere immundiciem coitus et multa alia quae docentur in isto
libro.
les
Equally true are Professor Mantegazza's words
plaics
du coeur humain au nom de
The
contrairc qu'hypocrisic ou pcur.
la
:
^
Cacher
pudeur, ce n'est au
Mr. Grote had reason to
late
lament that when describing such institutions as the far-famed
lepos Xo'xo?
Band annihilated
of Thebes, the Sacred
at Chacroncia,
The Spectator (No. 119) complains of an "infamous piece of good breeding,"
men of the town, and particularly those who have been polished in b'rancc,
make use of the most coarse and uncivilised words in our language and utter themselves
often in such a manner as a clown would blush to hear."
'
because "
'
See the Novellc
f)f
Pjandello the Bishop
where the dying fi>ht.rman
myself with boys was natural to
I
sinned against nature
!
"'
(Tome
i
replies to his confc.-sor "
me
as for
Amongst
man
to
;
Paris, Liseux, 1S79, small in 18),
Oh
eat
!
Oh
!
your reverence, to amuse
and drink
;
yet you asked
the wiser ancients sinning contra
me
if
naturam was not
inarrying and begetting children.
'
Avis au
Lecteur
"L'Amour
dans rHumanite," par P. Manlegazza. traduit par
Emilien Chcsncau, Paris, Fetscherin et Chuit, 1SS6.
—
Terminal Essay.
205
he was compelled to a reticence which permitted him to touch
This was inevitable under the
only the surface of the subject.
present rule of Cant
same does not apply
proceed
I
to
;
fig-leaf or feuille
my
to
show
Pederasty.
pathicorum
familia
earlier
which sought
"
despite
Sind,
favour with
conquest
his
me
before
with
a fraction (mostly
now
the
of Directors to the Honourable East India
began to consider
came
first
In 1845, vvhen Sir Charles Napier
life.
had conquered and annexed
venal)
suggestive
in
de vigne.
"execrabilis
by a chance of
now
Nights, and
decent nudity not
in
it
D.
The
The
version of
but the
:
matter sdrieusement, honnetement,
the
discuss
to
historiquement
a book intended for the public
in
Company,"
a
"Court
defunct
curious
the veteran
eye.
It
was
reported to him that Karachi, a townlct of some two thousand
souls
and distant not more than a mile from camp, supported no
than three lupanars or bordels,
less
women
which not
in
and eunuchs, the former demanding nearly a double
hire.
I
Being then the only British
was asked indirectly
subject
;
and
I
make
to
officer
See " M. B." (Henry Beyle,
P'rencli
An
movements of the animal.
his
Consul
same
But
effect.
nothinij of
find
I
Greece and K<ime
;
in
lie u.sed
I
)e
I'lniposture
The
also infra for
!
eh
!
<-lu
Na/arcen.
reason proved to be
tli.U
a kind of bridle for tlirectin^ the
a.s
tlie
kind mentioned
in
the
So!, u!ir,'
although the same cause miLjht be expected eNciyuIi
re
Mirabcau (Kadhc.-ch) a grand seigneur modcrne, wlicn
valct-de-chambrc de contiancc pri>poscs to provide him with
exclaims, " Des fcmnics
my
Civita \'ccchia) par un dcs Quarante
at
n-idcccKiv.
the scrotum of the unnuililated hoy C(^uld
to have the
Sintli,
Bombay Go\crnment, from
This detail cxpecially excited the veteran's curiosity.
literature of
could speak
undertook the task on express condition that
(Prosper Mcrimee), IClutheropolis,
^
price,'- laj- for
enquiries and to report upon the
report should not be forwarded to the
'
who
but boys
e'est
eomme
" Le poids du tisserand."
si
lu
me
servai.^
women
in^teatl of boy->,
un gigot sans nianche."
See
—
Alf Laylah wa Laylah.
2o6
whom
could expect scant
supporters of the Conqueror's policy
mercy or
favour,
Mohammed Hosayn
of Shiraz, and habited as a merchant, Mirza
Abdullah the Bushiri
visited all the porneia
despatched
duly
Accompanied by a Munshi, Mirza
justice.
^
passed
many
an evening
and obtained the
to
Government
its
way
But
House.
*'
Devil's
my
unfor-
with sundry other reports^ to
had been formally proposed by one of
successors,
which were
the
his office
in
Bombay and produced the expected result.
Secretariat informed me that my summary
service
the townlet
fullest details
Brother " presently quitted Sind leaving
tunate official: this found
in
A
friend
in
the
dismissal from the
Sir Charles Napier's
whose decease compels me parcere
sepulto.
But
this
excess of outraged modesty was not allowed.
Subsequent enquiries
in
many and
to arrive at the following conclusions
1.
There exists what
I
me
distant countries enabled
:
shall call a " Sotadic
Zone," bounded
westwards by the northern shores of the Mediterranean (N. Lat.
and by the southern (N. Lat.
43°)
30°).
Thus the depth would be
780 to 800 miles including meridional France, the Iberian PeninItaly
sula,
Marocco
2.
and Greece, with the coast-regions of Africa from
to Egypt.
Running eastward the Sotadic Zone narrows, embracing Asia
Minor, Mesopotamia and Chaldaa, Afghanistan, Sind, the Punjab
and Kashmir.
3.
In Indo-China the belt begins to broaden, enfolding China,
Japan and Turkistan.
4.
in
It
then embraces the South Sea Islands and the
Valley of the Indus, London, John
Van
*
See Falconry
^
Submitted to Government on Dec. 31, '47 and March
"
No.
in the
Selections from the Records of the
xvii.
Part
2,
1855.
(2) Brief Notes on the
late friend
scientific
These are
Modes
Voorst, 1852.
2, '48,
they were printed
Government of India." Bombay.
(i)
New
Notes on the Population of Sind,
of Intoxication, etc. written in collaboration
Assistant-Surgeon John E. Stocks,
botany.
New World
Scries.
etc.
and
wih my
whose early death was a sore
loss
to
Terminal Essay.
where, at the time of
207
some
discovery, Sotadic love was, with
its
exceptions, an established racial institution.
Within the Sotadic Zone the Vice
5.
is
popular and endemic,
held at the worst to be a mere peccadillo, whilst the races to the
North and
South of the
limits
here defined
practise
only
it
sporadically amid the opprobium of their fellows who, as a rule,
of performing
are physically incapable
upon
it
with the
the
operation and look
liveliest disgust.
Before entering into topographical details concerning Pederasty,
which
hold to be geographical and climatic, not
I
offer a
few considerations of
cause and origin.
its
forget that the love of boys has
beau
We
must
must not
The
noble sentimental side.
and pupils of the Academy, followed by the Sufis or
Platonists
Moslem
its
racial, I
Gnostics, held such affection, pure as ardent, tb be the
id^al
which united
man's soul the creature with the
in
Professing to regard
Creator.
beautiful objects in this
youths as the most cleanly and
phenomenal world, they declared that by
loving and extolling the chef-d'oeuvre, corporeal and intellectual,
of the Demiurgus, disinterestedly and without any admixture of
carnal sensuality, they are paying the most fervent adoration to
They add
the Causa causans.
does the love of
women,
that such affection, passing as
far
is
less
selfish
than fondness
it
for
and admiration of the other sex which, however innocent, always
Easterns add that the devotion of the
suggest sexuality'; and
moth
the
to the taper
is
purer and more fervent than the Bulbul's
Amongst
love for the Rose.
the Greeks of the best ages
of boy-favourites was advocated
system
morals and
The
politics.
on
th.-
considerations of
lover undertook the education of the
beloved through precept and example, while the two were con-
'
Cilycon the Courtesan in Athen.
when
they resemble
declares
women
" Boys are likened
;"
to girls
superior physical beauty of the
vol. iv. 15
;
viii.
84 declares that " boys are handsome only
and so the Learned Lady
in
The Nights
because folks say, Yonder boy
human male compared
and the boy's voice before
it
is
(vol. v,
like a girl."
with the female, see
breaks excels that of any diva.
i6o)
Vox the
The Nights,
—
Alf Laylah wa Lay!ah.
208
by a
joined
stricter
tie
than the
Peripatetic strongly advocated
Hieronymus the
fraternal.
because the vigorous disposition
it
of youths and the confidence engendered by their association
often led to the overthrow of tyrannies.
Socrates declared that
most valiant army might be composed of boys and
**a
lovers
men they would be most ashamed
for that of all
;
And
one another."
Formosum
even Virgil, despite the foul
pastor Corydon, could write
their
to desert
of
flavour
:
Nisus amore pio pueri.
The only
me and
physical cause for the practice which suggests itself to
must be owned
that
Zone there
within the Sotadic
temperaments, a
feminine
Hence
sporadically.
the
to be
purely conjectural,
a blending of the masculine and
is
which elsewhere occurs only
crasis
tribade, a
votary of mascula Sappho,' Queen of Frictrices or Rubbers,^
" Mascula," from the priapiscus, the over-development of
'
Sappho
(nat.
Abu
clitoris
(the
B.C. 612) has been
retoillee
like
Mary
Stuart,
xxiv.) declares
the
that
Eros
of
La
consult documents
ii.
now
lost,
Lcsbia quid docuit Sappho
Ille
mi par
(Ilcurcux
Ode to Atthis
esse Deo videtur
!
:
the love of ,\ntiocluis
1850) speaks of the
Greek
—
*
is
that
who
could
:
Sappho
Ovid,
to
Phaon and
in
Ode
*
iioMio. (a
for
*
is
Slratonice.
*
*
*
to Ai'hrodite i,Frag. i) as
the sole cure for passion, Erasistratus
Mure (Ifist. of Greek Literature,
"one in which the whole volume of
literature offers the nvist powerful concentration into
in
term applied only to
he, etc.)
love symptoms, suggesting that possession
modes
Socratic and
amare puellas?
qui pres dc toi pour toi seule soupire
Blest as th' immortal gods
discovered
nisi
Longinus eulogises the epwTtKT/
carnal love) of the far-famed
its
to Socrates
takes the same view in the Letter of
Marie
Maximus
265.
Suidas supports Ovid.
By
veretrum
Brinvilliers,
Sappho was
Gyrinna and Attbis were as Alcibiades and Chermidcs
Tristia
Prof.
Tartur, habens cristam) which enabled her to play the man.
Antoinette and a host of feminine names which have a savour not of sanctity.
of Tyre (Dissert,
man
male fcminisme whereby the
becomes paticns as well as agens, and the woman a
muliebre, in Arabic
that
is
which amatnry concupiscence can display
one
itself."
brilliant
focus of the
But Bernhardy, Bode,
made Sappho a model of purity, much
who have converted Shakespeare, that most debauched genius,
Richter, K. O. Muller and csp. Welcker have
like
some of our
into a
-
good
T'le
dull wits
British l)Ourgcois.
.\''.''l)ic
S"'.hhpl'r.h, '.he Tritt.itrix
or Subigitatrix,
who
has been noticed
v^ vol.
209
Terminal Essay.
Mantegazza claims
have discovered the cause of
to
this pathological
one of the marvellous
love, this perversion of the erotic sense,
of amorous vagaries which deserve, not prosecution but the
list
pitiful care
of the physician and the study of the psychologist.
According to him the nerves of the rectum and the
genitalia, in all
cases closely connected, are abnormally so in the pathic
tains,
by
who can
is
So amongst women
through the sexual organs.
a
orgasm which
intromission, the venereal
who
usually sought
there are tribads
procure no pleasure except by foreign objects introduced
Hence
posteriori.
his threefold
nerves and their hyperaesthesia
distribution of the
preferred on account of the narrowness of the passage
(3) the
Psychical,
what causes
is
But
this
is
(i)
;
Luxurious, when love a tergo
(2)
;
sodomy
of
distribution
by an unusual
Peripheric or anatomical, caused
is
ob-
evidently superficial
and
;
the question
:
neuropathy, this abnormal distribution and
this
condition of the nerves.*
Hence
134.
iv.
Lesbianise
to
applied to the love of
woman
natural, as friction of the labia
or
woman and
tribassare
the latter to
and insertion of the
by means of the fascinum, the
artificial
and
(A.e(ji?t^£iv)
for
artificial
(
its
clitoris
rpt's'ccr^at)
'
is
only glanced at in
Plato (Symp.)
being
The Nights
I
Mayajang
the beginning three species of humanity, men,
in
When
androgynes.
As
tliis
for
such passions by there
women and men-women
the latter were destroyed by Zeus for rebellion, the
but
—
sex
is it
the primitive
;
true?
The
man
Hence each division seeks its other
men and the primitive woman women.
half in the
C'est beau,
idea was probably derived from Egypt which supplied the
with androgynic humanity
Ardhanari was male
prefers
C)n
;
and thence
it
pa.>sed
to
or
two others were
individually divided into equal paits.
same
"); the
feminine
need hardly enlarge upon the subject.
probably mystical when he accounts
is
this is either
when unusually developed;
penis (the Persian "
patte de chat, the banana-fruit and a multitude of other succedanea.
perversion
former
^he
J
m&aniqiie:
Hebrews
extreme India, where Shiva as
one side and female on the other side of the body, combiniivT
paternal and maternal qualities and functions.
Tiic
was hemiaphrijdite (= Hermes and Venus) masculum
first
et
creation of
faminam
humans (Gen
creavit eos
i.
— male
z,
and
He them— on the sixth day, witli the command to increase and multiply
Eve the woman was created subsequently. Meanwhile, say certain
Adam carnally c>'ini!.i!ed with all races of animals. See L'Anandryne in
female created
(ibid. V. 2S) wliiie
Talmudists,
Mirabcau's
Erotika
Biblion,
wjiere
Antoinette
Bourgnon
laments the undoubling
which disfigured the work of God, producing monsters incapable of independent
reproduction like the vegetable kingdom.
V'^L.
X.
self-
Alf Laylah wa Laylah.
2IO
As
Prince Bismarck finds a moral difference between the male
and female races of
history, so
I
suspect a mixed physical tempe-
rament effected by the manifold subtle influences massed together
the word climate.
in
Something of the kind
necessary to
is
explain the fact of this pathological love extending over
greater
portion of the
habitable
th'"
world, without any apparent
connection of race or media, from the polished Greek to the
cannibal Tupi of the Brazil.
grey faces of onanists
Walt Whitman speaks of the ashen
the faded colours, the puffy features and the
:
unwholesome complexion of the professed
peculiar cachetic expression,
indescribable but once seen
stamp the breed, and Dr. G. Adolph
forgotten,
declaring
pederast with
"
never
justified
in
Alle Gewohnneits-pacderasten erkennen sich einander
met cinen
schncll, oft
is
his
Blick."
common
with
womanly
gait,
and the same
may
This has nothing
in
the feminisme which betrays itself in the pathic by
regard and gesture
:
it is
a something sui generis
;
be said of the colour and look of the young priest who honestly
refrains
from
well-known
women and
"
work,
Dr. Tardieu,
their substitutes.
Etude Medico-lcgalc sur
les
his
in
Attentats aux
Moeurs," and Dr. Adolph note a peculiar infundibuliform disposition of the " After "
and a smoothness and want of
folds even
before any abuse has taken place, together with special forms of
the male organs in confirmed pederasts.
But these observations
have been rejected by Caspar, Hoffman, Brouardel and Dr.
Henry Coutagne (Notes
sur la Sodomie,
Lyon
1
880),
and
J.
it
H.
is
a
medical question whose discussion would here be out of place.
The
origin of pederasty
is
lost
in
historiquc has been carefully traced
Vircy,^
Roscnbauni
Femmc,
-
'
De
Die Lustscuche dcs Alierthum's, Halle, 1839.
^
See his exhaustive
clopxdic
of
Ersch
by many
and M. H. E. Mcicr.^
^
In
the night of ages
;
but
its
writers, especially
The
ancient Greeks
Paris, 1S27.
article
on (Grecian) " Paedcrastie "
and Grubcr, Leipzig, Brcckhau', 1S37.
in
the Allgemeine Ency-
lie
carefully
traces
it
—
,
1
Terminal Essay.
who,
2
1
modern Germans, invented nothing but were great
like the
improvers of what other races invented, attributed the formal
apostolate of Sotadism to Orpheus, whose stigmata were worn
women
the Thracian
by
;
— Omnemque refugerat Orpheus
Foemineam venerem
I lie etiam Thracum populis
;
In teneres transferre mares
fuit
:
auctor,
amorem
citraque juventam
yttatis breve ver, et primos carpere flores.
Ovid Met.
X.
79-85.
Euripides proposed Lalfus father of Oedipus as the inaugurator,
whereas Timaeus declared that the fashion of making favourites of
boys
was introduced
reasons
said
Greece from Crete,
into
Aristotle
(Pol.
Herodotus, however, knew
attributing
10)
ii.
Malthusian
for
having discovered
far better,
Minos.
to
it
c.
(ii.
that the Orphic and Bacchic rites were originally Egyptian.
80)
But
the Father of History was a traveller and an annalist rather than
an archaeologist and he tripped
"
As soon
they
as
make
instantly
it
in the
(i.
c.
135),
hear of any luxury, they
Persians)
(the
following passage
own, and hence, among other matters,
their
they have learned from the Hellenes a passion for boys" ("unnatural
lust"
Herod,
xiii.)
says
modest Rawlinson).
much
with
asserts
^
Plutarch
more
(De
probability
Persians used eunuch boys according to the JMos
INIalig,
that
Grcucicv,
the
long
before they had seen the Grecian main.
In
Holy Books
the
of
dealing with
the heroic
although,
a
tlirough the
A^ia Minor.
these would
'
in
scw-ial
Doiinii>,
For these details
fdl
a
I nu'.st
/1",<
Kstienne,
Century, lately reprinted Lv
Li;-seux
is
Homer and
my
Hcsiod,
no trace of pederasty,
generation,
ilinns,
rei'er
w.lume not the section of an
Against which see Ilenii
xvi"'>
ages, there
subsequent
long
state-;?,
Hellenes,
the
Lucian suspected
lonians, the Attic cities and tli"~o of
readers to
M. Meier
;
a full r.iVMunt of
essay.
Apologia pour Iltrodote, a society
satire of
.
A If Lay la
212
wa
fi
LaylaJi.
Achilles and Patroclus as he did Orestes and Pylades, Theseus
and
f
Homer's praises of beauty are reserved
Pirithous.
commended
Crete seem to have
and subsequently imported
Ephorus
other colonies.
into
Tarentum, Agrigentum and
Strabo
(x.
4
21) gives a curious
5
account of the violent abduction of beloved boys
by the lover
(cpao-TT;?)
to the favourite
(/cAeti/o?)
yEneid. x. 325)
and of the
^
in
wards
"
marriage-ceremonies " which
See also Plato Laws
informs us
"De
i.
fuerunt,
quod postea
their apt pupils the Chalcidians held
boy
god of Crete loved Ganymede
^
sun-god, loved Hylas and a host of others
Xenophon
In Sparta the lover
The more
I
who were
to
the old
T'os") who
was called ctVTrvT^Aa? or
Zeus,
who became
broad
a
I
am convinced
La'..
in
that
(arj^io-ros)
and the beloved as
in
amongst the Immortals
hill. .1:..
'
n'' r.;^tia
of
Ijy
tlie
the gods.
God,
a duificd
Chcmnv';
Ganymede (who
fair
of time became a symbol of the wise
;ne prudent are loved
From
as opp'ised to
by long time and distant travel and the old
becoming the Demiurgus.
t!iai .sily
man never worshipped
his burial-place.
Hebrew Jehovah
"Catamitus") was probably some
in jirrice^s
'he P
showed
a local god, like the
luUl gain arrtplitude
would end
(perspicacity) to be raided
'
€io-7rr>jAo?
dis-
Jupiter, was an ancient king, according to the
entitled liars because tliey
become
name w
the
;
island chieftain
rise
who draws
13),
ii.
study religions the more
ancestor he would
Moab
(Lac.
atrr/?.
anything but himself.
of
itself for legal
between the honest love of boys and dishonest
Thessaly uiTa? or
Cretans,
But
and as such was undertaken by Lycurgus and Solon,
according to
tinction
to be a
thus Crete sanctified
:
came, the subject had qualified
legislation
limitation
'
who grew
by the examples of the gods and demigods.
the practice
'
national Doric
Apollo, another Dorian deity,
;
loved Hyacinth, and Hercules, a Doric hero
when
after-
disreputable for a
it
Hence Zeus the
to lack a lover.
Laconas
in
The Cretans and
totam Gra^ciam translatum est."
beautiful
(Ad
Servius
8.
c.
Cretensibus accepimus, quod in
amore puerorum intcmperantes
et
(Trapao-To^eWcs)
of the obligations of the ravisher (^tA^wp)
;
two months.
lasted
<
the abuse to Athens and Sparta
it
in
'"
But the Dorians
favourite Helen.
-minines, especially his
for the
;
lUit
-ee l]ay!e
Phrygian
man
sui/.cd
and the chaste myili
it
rotted with age
under Chr\.^i;r
._
;;~
possibly gave
boy ("son of
by the eagle
imply
du
sigiiill
all
.d
li.i.j;^.
—
213
Terminal Essay.
They
lust.
approved
both
Harmodius and Aristogiton
but forbade
;
women
Xenophon, Synop.
(Plato: Phaedrus; Repub.
10)
iv.
with serviles because
it
love of boys was spoken
Hence the
degrading to a free man.
of like that of
pure pederast/a, like that of
of
e.g.,
many
and Euripides were allowed
"
many men were
women
many
to introduce
well-regulated
and
;
it
upon the
boy
Poets
Greece."
of
cities
in the flower of his
Charmus who
first
Charmus loved Hippias son
while
built
in
Alcaeus,
like
and Theognis sang
it
The statesmen
youth."
Tcos
Aristides and Thcmistocles quarrelled over Stesileus of
Pisistratus loved
stage, for
was a frequent fashion
this
Anacreon, Agathon and Pindar affected
of a
lovers"
as fond of having boys for their favourites as
for their mistresses
" beautiful
rather
iEschylus, Sophocles
the language of Hafiz and Sa'adi.
is
19 and
c.
"There was once a boy, or
a youth, of exceeding beauty and he had very
this
vi.
and
;
an altar to Puerile Eros,
Demosthenes
of Pisistratus.
the Orator took into keeping a youth called Cnosion greatly to
the
of
indignation
Autolycus
his
Hermcas, Theodcctes
Aristotle,
;
docles, Pausanias
Zcno with
Epicurus, Pytoclcs
;
A
affecting only pcdcrasti'a.
that
will
liis
gladiators
certain
man
in
and
;
pcxderasta
•
Sec Dis=cr;?.tion
M. Audc,
Octave
-
f<
Chariclcs
The
latiil
1-y
rii;hli\',
nh.rasc
'..v'cr.
Ai
uf J.
!'[,'"..
Ai'-ide
' Sanc'e S
Bonmaire,
i'nr!-,
1S70.
dy,
\\\\\\
much more
women,
40) left in
fight
Lucian
like
abuses
Lastly there
pleasures."
Socrates, the " sanctus
when
under
the
This
is
the
pseudonym of the
hut not the Editio rriiiceps
— whicli,
Par
I.ue
if
I
matter.
M;\ttl;ias Gcji.er,
mils'
for
c.
idccs morak'S tics Grccs ct sur les danger de lire Platon.
Koucn, Lcnionnycr,
contain^
in
soup^onnd
violcmment
(iv.
should
loved
of A' iuiadcs and
wlio puLIijlied
l_';;k']'iciTe,
-.^ivk'd
,sur les
IS;'.'lio;,]iilc,
rememl'er
affair
being
2
"
and others; Empe-
Athcnaeus
Callicratidas for his love of " sterile
was the notable
and
Clinias
Aristippus, Eutichydes and
youths he had
funeral
his
at
;
^
had a philosophic disregard
Stoics
his
Xenophon loved
wife.
Cunim. Reg. Sue.
.crate,
GoiiiiiL;cn
era pro nobis,"" and
Li^eu:., iS;7.
tlie
i.
i-3~.
ariick-
\^.^.^
1:
^^
is
\::.\\---
.
^If Laylah wa Laylah.
214
"nantle
V.
c.
:
— non
semper
declares that Plato
13)
ab eo
plag^
sine
Athena^us
surrexit.
represents Socrates as absolutely-
intoxicated with his passion for Alcibiades.*
The
ancients seem
to have held the connection impure, or Juvenal would not have
written
—
Inter Socraticos notissima fossa cinaedos,
followed
by Firmicus
cones."
It
is
master
the
(vii.
modern fashion
the
of " Socratici paedi-
doubt the pederasty of
to
Sophrosyne,
Hellenic
of
who speaks
14)
the
" Christian
before
Christianity;" but such a world-wide term as Socratic love can
We
hardly be explained by the lucus-a-non-lucendo theory.
arc
overapt to apply our nineteenth century prejudices and prepossessions to
the morality of the ancient Greeks
specimcn'd such squeamishness
The
'
The
employed many a pen,
subject has
(supposed to be Pietro Aretino
Attic
in
Agnon
Spartans, according to
salt.
the
Academic (confirmed by
Alcibiade Fanciullo a Scola, D. P. A.
e.g.
— ad captandum
who would have
?),
Oranges, par Juann Wart, 1652
:
small
square Svo. of pp. 102, including 3 preliminary pp. and at end an unpaged leaf with
4 sonnets, almost Venetian, by V. M.
l2mo
There
a re-impression of the same date, a small
is
of longer format, pp. 124 with pp. 2 for sonnets: in 1862 the Imprimerie
printed 102 copies in Svo. of pp. iv.-ioS, and
in
1S63
it
Ragon
was condemned by the police as
a liber spurcissimus atque execrandus dc criminis sodomici laude et arte.
This work
produced "Alcibiade Enfant a I'ecole," traduit pour
I'ltalien
premiere
la
fois
de
Ferrante Pallavicini, Amsterdam, chcz I'Ancicn Pierre Marteau, mdccclxvi.
(nat. 1618),
in
who wrote
against
Rome, was beheaded,
1644 by the vengeance of the Barberini
antiques and a
his
" Opere
Memb.
cet.
26 (March
5,
de
Pallavicini
1644) at
Avignon
he was a bel esprit dcreglc, nourri d'ctudes
:
His peculiarities are shown by
of the Acad. Degl' Incogniti.
Scelte," 2 vols. l2mo, \'illafranca, mdclxiii.
;
these do not include Alcibiade
Fanciullo, a dialogue between Philotimus and Alcibiades wliich seems to be a mere
skit
at
the Jesuits
I'Alcibiade
and
fanciullo
a
accomimgiiee dc notes
their
Peche philosophique.
scola,"
ct
The same
Bast'i^gio
claims for F. Pallavicini the autlior.
attributes to
fornaceus,
M.
amator
Girol.
Adda
ineptu,-,
"
Alcibiade Fanciullo; but most
in
l;;p -jf
1S50.
(Palladii,
de
— an
franc^ais
I'iascggio
(M.
Alcibiades which the
et
Gustave
octavo of pp. 78 (paged;,
1S50 his Disquisizioni (23 copies)
in
I
the "Dissertation sur
Giambatti.ita
bibliopliile
Gay, 1S61
J.
jirinted
Then came
I'ltalien
d'une post-face par un
Erunet, Librarian of Bordeaux), Paris.
254 copies.
de
traduit
ant!
Manuel du Libraire wrongly
have heard of but not seen the "Amatui
1633)
critics c<jn.,ider
su;.poscd
it
by some to
b.
the origin
a poor and insipid production.
of
—
Terminal Essay.
and Cicero), treated boys and
Plato, Plutarch
before marriage: hence Juvenal
for
Peloponncsian War, which ended
in
"
After the
to a tribade.
it
same way
Lacedaemonius
**
B.C. 404, the use became
in
Yet some purity must have survived, even
the abuse.
amongst the
girls in the
173) uses
(xi.
a pathic and other writers apply
merged
215
who produced
Boeotians
described by Ovid (Met.
iii.
339)
famous Narcissus/
the
:
Multi ilium juvenes, multa; cupiere puellae
;
Nulli ilium juvenes, nullae tetigere puellae }
for
Epaminondas, whose name
established
Holy Regiment
the
a glorious death.
Philip's
Chaeroneia form their
fittest
according to iEschines,
;
Porneia
the
mutual
of
At
epitaph.
officially
and
on the
reflections
but the threat did not abolish
Kardchi
composed
lovers,
Eros and preferring to a discreditable
testifying the majesty of
life
mentioned with three beloveds,
is
of boys,
ot
with death
like
where
Pornoboskeia,
field
Athenians,
last the
Sodomy
punished
bordels
fatal
;
those ot
and
slaves
pucri vcnales " stood," as the term was, near the Pnyx, the city
walls and a certain
Tim.)
;
tower, also about Lycabettus (^^sch, contra
and paid a fixed tax
society in civilised Greece
the heresies of love
'
The word
by the
is
seem
as types of
were offered
-
in
morusa voluptas, masturbation and
Adam
fir^t
the contemplation of
The verseof Ovid
is
parailel'd
liis
in
:
the
flowers,
being loved
Narcissus and Ilippolytus are often
clitorisation for
certain mcdia;val writers found in the former a tyjie of the Saviour;
Vishnu absorbed
chiefly
and Sotadism.
to the Furies.
representation of the androgynous or
pleasures ot
have been sought
to
— Hetairesis^
The
state.
fiom vapKrj, numbness, torpor, narcotism
infernal gods,
assumed
to the
:
to
own
me
nymphomania
:
and Mirabcau a
Narcissus suggests the
Hindu
jicrfLCtions.
by the sung of Al-Zaliir alja/.ari (Ibn
Kliall.
iii,
720).
Ilhim impubcrem amaverunt mares; puberem feniiua:.
Ciloria
'
Deo
I
nunquam amatoribus
carebit.
Tb.e venerable society of prostitutes contained three chief classes.
lowest were the Dicteriads, so called from Dicte (Cretr)
Minos,
in preferring
abuU
to a
husband
;
who
Tlie
first
and
imitated ra>;]>liaej wife of
above them was the middle
cla^s, the Aleutridae
—
2i6
Alf Laylah
It
is
calculated that the French of the sixteenth century had
four hundred
names
their use in
coition.
and some of
for the parts genital
and three hundred
The Greek vocabulary
is
for
not less copious
pederastic terms, of which Meier gives nearly a
its
hundred, and
nomenclature of pathologic love
its
and picturesque enough
To
iva Laylah.
of Abron (the Argive)
live the life
are
curious
to merit quotation.
i.e.
that of a
Trao-xwv,
pathic
or passive lover.
The Agathonian
=
Aischrourgfa
Arrenokoitfa,
song.
dishonest love, also called Akolasi'a, Akras/a,
etc.
Alcinoan youths, or
non-conformists,"
**
In cute curanda plus aequo operata Juventus.
"
Alegomenos, the
by
the
unspeakable," as the pederast was termed
of Ancyra
Council
Agrios,
also the
:
and
Apolaustus
Akolastos.
Androgyne, of
whom
Ansonius wrote (Epig.
Ecce ego sum
=
Badas and badfzein
Ixviii. 15)
:
factus femina de puero.
clunes
torquens
also
:
Batalos := a
catamite.
Catapygos, Katapygosyne
Dactylion, the ring, used
in
= puerarius
and catadactylium from
the sense of Ncrissa's, but applied to
the corollarium puerile.
Cinc'edus (Kinaidos), the active lover
his kinetics or quasi
(lascivia flucns)
Chalcidissarc
=
K^W
aiS(os
a fair
= dog-modest.
the Almnli-^ or jrnf. -ionnl musicians,
Hetairai,
whose
history.
The grave
(Philemon in
Republic.
his
ar.il
S(!(;i,
v.ii..
or
li.-^d
.-ludifl
Ltir-Jel,
Chalcis
and the
IcirniM;:; cnalilcl thLHi to
Delpliica),
Also Spatalocin.'Edus
Ganymede.
(Khalkidizcin), from
who were
wit
derived cither from
(ttoiojv)
in
in
nrist.,cracy
Eubcca, a city
was rcpresmted by
adorn more than one
Egypt,
csIal)li.^!le(l
who-^c proceeds swelled
the
['age of
a
\a>t
tlie
Grecian
Dicterion
VL^enuc
of
the
—
Terminal Essay.
famed
k posteriori
for love
by
testicules
2\y
mostly applied to
;
l^chement des
le
children.
=
Clazomenaj
the buttocks, also a sotadic disease, so called from
Venus
the Ionian city devoted to Avcrsa
—et
also used of a pathic,
;
tergo femina pube vir est.
Embasicoetas, prop, a link-boy at marriages, also a " night-cap
drunk before bed and
omnium
lastly
;
one who perambulavit
See Encolpius' pun upon the Embasi-
cubilia (Catullus).
cete in Satyricon, cap.
an effeminate
"
iv.
Epipedesis, the carnal assault.
Gciton
lit.
"
neighbour
produced the Fr.
the beloved of Encolpius, which has
"
=
Giton
Bardache,
Arab. Baradaj, a captive, a slave
Ital.
the augm. form
;
from the
bardascia
is
Polygeiton.
Hippias (tyranny of) when the patient (woman or boy) mounts
the agent.
So
Aristoph. Vcsp. 502.
also Kclitizcin
=
peccare
superne or cquum agitare supcrnum of Horace.
Mokhtheri'a, depravity with boys.
whence paidicare
Paidika,
the Latin poet
and
(act)
paedicari (pass)
:
so
in
:
PEnelopes primam DIdonis prima sequatur,
Et primam CAni, syllaba prima REmi.
Pathikos,
facilis),
Pathicus, a
Malchio,
Ilor. (Sat.
ii.
passive, like
Alalakos (malacus,
mollis,
Trimalchio (Petronius), Malta, Maltha and
in
25)
Malthinus lunicis dcmissis ambulat.
= the malpractice.
Pygisma = buttockry, because
Praxis
nates, being too
Phccnicissare
quia hoc vitium
LatiiKc)
;
much
excited for further intromission.
(</>oij'tKt^eu)
in
=
cunniliiigcrc in
tempore menstruum,
Phccnicia gcncrata solcbat (Thcs. Erot. Lin^^.
also irrumcr en
I'hicidissare,
most actives end within the
dcnotat
mid.
actum
per
canes commis^uin
quando
"
Alf Laylah wa Laylah.
2lS
lambuilt cunnos vel testiculos (Suetonius)
also applied to pollu-
:
tion of childhood.
Sarnorium
(Erasmus, Prov.
flores
alluding to the andro-
xxiii.)
gynic prostitutions of Samos.
Siphniassare
=
from Siphnos, hod. Sifanto Island)
(o-K^vta^civ,
podicem fodere ad prurigincm restinguendam, says Erasmus
digito
(see Mirabeau's Erotika Biblion, Anoscopie).
= the rubbing.
Thrypsis
Pederastfa had in Greece,
side
and
with
:
brazen
a
"
te,
With increased luxury the
evil
There were individual protests
Maximus
son for dubia castitas
his military Tribune,
Scantrnia
;
O.
(Scatinia
and
for
;
popularly derived
the scandal by fine and the
Lex
class
seems then
une note d'infamie,
comme
under "Anacreon."
The
Catullus,
in
Rome
his praise Gallias
cies.
xlix.)
to
en
;
whence
from
his
all
The
Scantinius
attempted to abate
;
alors
h.
but they were
in
cctte espccc
with the
d'amour
dc chretientc, says Bayle
pals
Cina:dus calvus of
the wives and the wife of
(Suetonius, cap.
lii.)
;
and
his soldiers
all
sang
Caesar subcgit, Nicomedes Ca'sarem (Suet.
his
sobriquet
"
Fornix Birthynicus."
Augustus the people chauntcd
V'idc^nc
O.
S.
have disdained these "sterile
great Caesar, the
was the husband of
the husbands in
.'),
by death
Julia
Ton n'attachoit point
pleasures:"
13),
punished
infamy which surged
trifling obstacles to the flood of
No
instance,
Luscius, for unchaste proposals.
.^),
!
a private soldier, C. Plotius, killed
the Tribune and of doubtful date (B.C. 226
Empire.
meo
quam foeminarum
(Consul U,C. 612)
Servilianus
the
in
grew and Livy notices (xxxix.
Bacchanalia, plura virorum inter sese
stupra.
Lex
exclaim,
characters
his
Plautus
Republic
the
amator, apage te a dorso
Ultro
Fabius
malpractices, like her religion
under
makes one of
21)
ii.
Even
face.
utmost sang-froid,
the
noble and ideal
its
from those ultra-material Etruscans and debaucncd
polity,
(Casin.
at
have shown,
I
Rome, however, borrowed her
u'.
C in>t'dus
orbcm
digito tcmpcrcc'
Of
;
Terminal Lssay.
2i<)
Tiberius, with his pisciculi and greges exoletorum, invented the
Symplegma
or nexus of
the spinthrise
women's
(lit.
by the bond of
agentes et patientes, in which
Sellarii,
bracelets) were connected in a chain
(Seneca Quaest. Nat.).
flesh'
Ot" this
ret^.r.e-
mcnt, which in the earlier pari of the nineteenm century was
by sundry
renewed
(Epig. cxix.
Englishuien
al
Ausonius
iTiiipiws,
wrotQ
i),
Tres uno in lecto
,And Martial had said
:
Cxii.
stuprum duo perpetiuntur
;
43)
Quo symplegmate quinque copulentur
Qua plures teneantur a catena etc.
;
Ausonius
The
completed.
Pythagoras
who was
(or
first
beautiful
patience
Nero
was
formally
that
he-
sacrifice
was
married
to
subjected to castration of a peculiar fashion
The
queenly honours.
great
lost
Doryphoros) and afterwards took to wife Sporus
was then named Sabina
the
so
M. Lepidus, before the
the priest
forcibly entered
he
of Caligula
recounts
"
after the
he
;
deceased spouse and claimed
Othonis et Trajani pathici
Hadrian openly loved Antinoiis and
"
were famed
the
wild
;
de-
baucheries of Hcliogabalus seem only to have amused, instead
of disgusting, the
Romans.
Uranopolis allowed public lupanaria where adults and meritorii
pucri,
hire
:
who began
the
their career as early as seven years, stood for
inmates of these cauponai wore
As
dalmatics like women.
in
tunics
and
modern Egypt pathic boys, we
learn
Debauchees had signals
from Catullus, haunted the public baths.
like
freemasons whereby
Skcmati'zcin was
'
si
(in
the
lurpiter ligati.
Saint Paul
museum
the
hand
finger as if to feel
Ics poulettes ont
This and
Kosario
recognised one another.
made by closing
and raising the middle
tfiter
Llicy
I'oeuf:
(Romans
of the Grand
i.
sleeved
to represent the
scrotum
whether a hen had eggs,
hence the Athenians called
27) suggested to Caravaggio
Duke
The Greek
b.is
picture of
of Tuscany), showing a circle of thirty
it
St.
men
—
—
—
Alf L ay Iah
220
Lay la k
vfa
Catapygon or sodomite and the Romans
head with the minimus
to scratch the
caput scabere (Juv,
The
133).^
ix,
forbidden by Domitian
digitus impudicus or
and the Chiromantists.
infamis, the "medical finger'" of Rabelais
Another sign was
—
.
;
i.
and we may agree with Grotius (de Verit.
ii.
much
did
Theodosius punished
suppress
to
with
it
ii.
18)
boy and
between
At
it.
virilis
In the pagan days of imperial
1
26;
Cor.
i.
vi. 8);
13) that early
c.
Emperor
the
last
animai.
Rome
her literature makes no
Horace naively says
girl.
(Sat.
:
Ancilla aut verna est praisto puer
and with Hamlet, but
dishonest sense
in a
— ^lan
Nor woman
allusions (xi. 46)
;
:
me
delights
not
neither.
who
Similarly the Spaniard Martial,
mine of such pederastic
a
is
:
Sive puer
arrisit, sive
puclla
tibi.
That marvellous Satyricon which unites the wit of
Properly ^peaking " Mcdicus "
'
first
as a profanation, because sacro-
fire
sanctum esse dcbetur hospitium
difference
was
prostitution of boys
but Saint Paul, a Greek, had formally
expressed his abomination of Le Vice (Rom.
Christianity
—digitulo
the third or
is
ring-finger, as
Molit;re^ with
shown by the
old
Chironianlist verses,
Est poliex \'cneris
Salurnus mecHum
^
Seneca uses digito
.So
;
;
sed Jupiter indice gaudel,
Sol /ncdiai/nqwc tenet.
The modern
scalpit caput.
same by
Italian does the
inserting
the thumb-tip between the index and mcdius to suggest the clitoris.
It
Sa['ient<
fist
worthy of
is
world.
sc
now
Wliat can be wittier than the
*
humour
;
is
fjund
as the
"
in
the
Widu'.'.'
pvitain ^\ir la
Abel I\emuvit
Nights?
'I'he
trite
neo-rh:vdrus,
wdiieh
that
liow.- in hi^ C(<ntes
'.hat
Chinois
tlie
it
it
th.it
it
is
widl
known
mo-t >ingu!ar jdace
ly Jeremy Taylor,
who
to tb.e
f.r m!c!i
duces
" Of the Contingencies of Deal!: and Treating ear De.id."
But
Fx^
rci-^e
<[ Ib.ly I'ying''
were not mealy-mouthed.
of
tciir
in
tlie
tb.o
Seplem
qi'i
Brantnme and La Fontaine; and
intri,
anrl
the graml
Mus.eu.i and
the " I'abliau de la I-'emrne
As
tein[)led
made
has
the tales of
was comforted."
f^-e de son Mari,"
Mr. W-.lier K. Kelly rerniik^,
Talc of the I'phesian Matron, who^e dry
No wonder
it
in
Middle Kinj-.dom.
a tale
into
th<
is
hi-;
-c
the " Kide
cha;
day.-,
'
t'.i\
v.
ine^
—
221
Terminal Essay.
the debaucheries of Piron, whilst the writer has been described,
like Rabelais, as purissimus in impuritate,
Triumph of
a kind of
is
Geiton the hero, a handsome curly-pated hobbledehoy
Pederasty.
of seventeen, with his c^linerie and wheedh'ng tongue,
like
one of the sequor sexus
courted
is
his lovers are inordinately jealous
:
of him and his desertion leaves deep scars upon the heart.
no dialogue between man and wife
extremis could be more
in
the scene where shipwreck
pathetic than that in
is
imminent.
Elsewhere every one seems to attempt his neighbour
alte succinctus assails Ascyltos
would
force Encolpius
touch (cap.
finislied
dying
and so
vii.)
:
—"The
yet
:
we have
the neat and
lamentation was very fine (the
his slaves) albeit his wife
How
as though she loved him.
man
a
;
Lycus, the Tarentine skipper,
;
forth
man having manumitted
Br"
were
it
had he
wept not
not behaved to her
so well?''
some ninety words connected with
Erotic Latin glossaries' give
Pederasty and some, which
"
peculiarly expressive.
treated as boys
Aversa Venus
comatus
mulicbria patitur
;
is
and he
;
is
an
Effeminatus
be Chevalier
I'ierre
1'.
inedits
de
M.
P>aron
le
(l'a^i^iis,
Pierrugue^,
and who annotated the Erotica BihHon.
des travaux
qui
i.e.
or a Delicatus, slave or eunuch for the use
cxplnnalio nova, auctorc P.
to
being
by Piron, addresses
Dominus
Glossarium croticum lingUK Latinx, sivc tlicogonix, Icgum
supposed
women
alludes to
also called calamistratus, the darling
is
the Draucus, Pucrarius (boy-lover) or
Romanos
simplicity," are
puta, cunnos, uxor, habere duos.
curled with crisping-irons
*
"
:
Teque
capillatus or
Roman
speak with
hence Martial, translated
:
Mistress Martial (x. 44)
The
"
Gay
ile
a>i
(Mart.
ct
engineer
writes, "
inorum nuptialiiim
Schonen,
who made
On
etc.
s'est
Tlu
xi. 71).
Dondcy-Duiirc, 1826,
in Svd).
.-i]".iil
V. V.
a plan of Puidr.iux
servi
Quant au
pour
ect
oa\ r.ige
Chcv.ili'r
Pime
Pierrugues, qu'on designait conuue I'auleur de cc savant vohime, son existence n'ot
bicn averee, ct quelques l)ihUographc.^ jier^isient a penser que ce
tion <hi
Baron de Schonen
Forberg have been printed
i-}'
el
dVKloi Juhanneau.
Li-eu\, Paris.
Other
nom
o'"
;)as
caclie \x collabiaa-
glossicists as BlonJ.cau
and
Alf Laylah
2 22
Divisor
so called from his practice Hillas dividere or coedcre,
is
something
mutuum
vice," in
Facere vicibus (Juv.
facere (Plaut. Trin.
vii.
437),
ii.
or Juvenal's Hesterna^
238), incestare se invicem
is
"a
described as
puerile
which the two take turns to be active and passive
are also called Gemelli and
Fratrcs
= compares
picturesque
phrase
indicare
(seu
they
:
paedicatione.
in
= praepostera seu postica Venus, and
Illicita libido is
by the
mentulam
like Martial's cacare
occurrere caenae.
or
iva Laylah.
is
expressed
incurvare)
aliquem.
Depilatus, divellere piles, glaber, laevis and nates pervcllere are
The
allusions to the Sotadic toilette.
dcmitterc and
caput are
dejiccre
Pathica puella,
pucra,
putus,
distinction
fine
between
worthy of a glossary, while
pullipremo, pusio, pygiaca
sacra,
quadrupes, scarabaeus and smerdalius explain themselves.
From Rome
the practice extended far and wide to her colonies
especially the Provincia
now
charges the people of Massilia with
luxury "; and he cites the saying "
if
it
"
May you
charged with Lc Vice by Aristotle (Pol.
Roman
(v. 32).
where
to Northern Africa,
it
acting like
sail
26)
(xii.
women
out of
to Massilia
!
" as
Indeed the whole Keltic race
were another Corinth.
Diodorus Siculus
Athenacus
called Provence.
ii.
66), Strabo. (iv. 199)
is
and
civilisation carried pederasty also
took firm root, while the negro and
negroid races to the South ignore the erotic perversion, except
where imported by foreigners into such kingdoms as Bornu and
Haussa.
'
In old
Mauritania,
Thi-s ina^jnifirent country
gloriou:. rcgitjh
The
races.
Goetulian
etc.
last are
the
Moors
but modif.ed by
ix
Low
(j>lur.
like tl)c
Moslem
tliree
Iiy
tt-iiaiUcd
is.
TamaziglU
themselves
The
Benjamin
ceiitury, are
]>roprr, the race
are
Aniazigli),
of
tl;e
FJuprat;.
The Arabs, descended
mostly nomads and
dwelHng
in towns, a
camid-breed.i.'rs.
mixed breed
fr'nn
the
Tliird
and
firiginally
Arabian
centuries of Spani.^h residence and showing by thickness of feature
and a parchment-colourui
-kin, rr ,iinbling the
latter are v..J! riL-cribed in
and Co., 1876}, by
see reprinted.
call
Paris,
in our eighth
of old date
Moors proper arc
nes speaking an .Vfrico-Semitic tongue (see Essai dc Graniniaire K;ibyle,
Hanoleau,
par A.
conquerors
who
the
which the petty jealousies of Europe condemn,
about Conitantiuople, to mere barbarism,
>
P-'/rbers,
indi;;'
now Marocco,'
my
late
friend Dr.
American OclarosnVs,
" Mor^jcco and
Arthur Leared,
a ni gro innervation
the Moor>," etc. 'ISainp'-on
wlio-.j
wotk
I
ihould like to
Terminal Essay.
notable sodomites
;
223
Moslems, even of saintly houses, are permitted
openly to keep catamites, nor do their disciples think worse of
their sanctity for such license
home
to banish from the
Yet pederasty
read
And
"
;
if
:
in
one case the English wife
forbidden by the Koran.
is
failed
" that horrid boy."
In chapter
iv.
20 we
two (men) among you commit the crime, then
punish them both," the penalty being some hurt or damage by
public
reproach,
insult
There are four
or scourging.
references to Lot and the Sodomites in chapters
xxvi. 160-174 and xxix. 28-35.
Iri
the
vii. ']^
distinct
xi
;
77-84
;
the prophet commis-
first
sioned to the people says, " Proceed ye to a fulsome act wherein
no creature hath foregone ye
.-*
Verily ye come to
men
lieu of
in
women lustfully." We have then an account of the rain which
made an end of the wicked and this judgment on the Cities of the
Plain
is
repeated with more detail in the second reference.
Here
the angels, generally supposed to be three, Gabriel, Michael and
Raphael, appeared to Lot as beautiful youths, a sore temptation
to the sinners and the godly man's
arm was
his visitors because he felt unable to protect
vagaries of his fellow townsmen.
He
from behind them
matter
argued
the
straitened concerning
them from the
erotic
therefore shut his doors
:
presently the
and
riotous
assembly attempted to climb the wall when Gabriel, seeing the
smote them on the face with one of
distress of his host,
and blinded them so that
that
Lot had magicians,
which,
if
uplifted
:
all
in
moved
off crying for aid
his house.
his
wings
and saying
Hereupon the "cities"
they ever existed, must have been Fellah villages, were
Gabriel thrust his wing under them and raised them so
high that the inhabitants of the lower heaven (the lunar sphere)
could hear the dogs barking and the cocks crowing.
the rain of stones
:
these were clay pellets
streaked white and red, or having some
mark
baked
Then came
in
hcll-fire,
to distinguish
from the rirdinary and each bearing the name of
its
them
destination
Alf Laylah wa Laylah.
224
like the missiles
which destroyed the host of Abrahat al-Ashram.'
Lastly the " Cities " were turned upside
down and
These circumstantial unfacts are repeated
earth.
two chapters
in the other
have
to
but rather as an instance of Allah's
;
regarded with
general opinion of his followers
unless
fornication
But here, as
philosophic
is
that
it
made
the offenders
in adultery,
upon
at full length
Mohammed
power than as a warning against pederasty, which
seems
cast
the law
is
The
indifference.
should be punished like
a public act of penitence.
somewhat too clement and
will
not convict unless four credible witnesses swear to have seen rem
in
re.
have noticed
I
Ghilmdn or Wuldan, the
(vol.
211) the vicious opinion that the
i.
beautiful boys of Paradise, the counter-
parts of the Houris, will be lawful catamites to the True Believers in
a future state of happiness
Al-Islam
;
and, although
I
the idea
:
is
nowhere countenanced
have often heard debauchees
refer to
in
it,
the learned look upon the assertion as scandalous.
As
Marocco so the Vice
in
of Algiers,
prevails throughout the old regencies
Tunis and Tripoli and
Mediterranean seaboard, whilst
all
the cities of the South
unknown
it is
to the Nubians, the
Berbers and the wilder tribes dwelling inland.
ward we reach Egypt, that
classical
which, marvellous to relate, flourished
leading the purest of
and
religion
lives,
region of
in closest
(B.C.
whose
and held
some hundred and ninety
years.
Thus
storm.
Carm.
Priapi
armies, after the victory over
settled in the Nile-Valley,
'
Le Vice was
x\ii).
would have gained strength by the invasion of Camb)-scs
524),
Pcntaijolis
men
was represented by two male
partridges alternately copulating (Interp. in
evil
abominations
contact with
the ancient Copts
part and portion of the Ritual and
The
all
models of moderation and morality, of
Amongst
virtue.
Proceeding East-
sorncwh.it agrccint^ \vi;h
was destroyed hy
Pos-sible,
one
dischaiije^
but wliere are the stones
despite sunchy revolts, for
During these
the nmltituiiinous
r.f
(if
it,
P.sammcniti;-
si.\
modern
generations
theories that the
meteoric stones during a tremendous thunder'^
Terminal Essay.
the Iranians
left their
Delta of the
mark upon Lower Egypt and
Bey proved, upon
the late Rogers
225
Nor would
Nile.^
Fayyum
the
especially, as
the most ancient
by the
the evil be diminished
Hellenes who, under Alexander the Great, " liberator and saviour
of Egypt
" (B.C.
332),
extinguished the native dynasties
Eunuch being
of the Macedonian for Bagoas the
From
history.
life
01"
;
the Canopic orgies extended into
and the debauchery of the men was equalled only by
the depravity of the
women.
Neither Christianity nor Al-Islam
could effect a change for the better
have been at
;
and
social morality
seems to
worst during the past century when Sonnini
its
The French
(A.D. 17 17).
travelled
a matter
that time and under the rule of the Ptolemies the
morality gradually decayed
private
the love
:
who
officer,
is
thoroughly
trustworthy, draws the darkest picture of the widely-spread criminality especially of the bestiality
which
formed the
Napoleonic
conquest
"
says,
19)
(p.
" delight of
Jaubert
Les Arabes
in
his
et
Ics
still
fallait
II
who was solemnly
age
present
traits
y passer." Old Anglo-Egyptians
of Sa'id Pasha and M. de Ruysscnaer,
advised to
and passive, before offering
In the
ont
traitait, dit-on,
and highly respectable Consul-General
the high-dried
active
Socrate
perir ou
chuckle over the tale
Netherlands,
Mamelouks
comme
xv.)
General Bruix
to
letter
(chapt.
During the
Egyptians."
the
quclques-uns de nos prisonniers
Alcibiade.
and the sodomy
make
his opinion
for the
the experiment,
upon the
subject.
intercourse with Europeans has
extensive
produced not a reformation but a certain reticence amongst the
upper classes
:
they are as vicious as ever, but they do not care
for displaying their vices to the eyes of
mocking
Syria and Palestine, another ancient
'
To
this Iranian
yet oh:,olcte
in
domination
Egypt.
I
attribute
"Bakhshish,"
regions west of the Nile- Valley and for a
favor.
V'T^T,.
X.
tlic
for
use of
focus
many
the
of
abominations,
Persic words wliicli are not
inst.ince, is not
present
strangers.
intcUii^hle in the Mo.%lem
Moor-, say Iladiyah, rcgaio or
—
A If Lay la h wa Lay la h.
226
borrowed from Egypt and exaggerated the worship of Androgynic and hermaphroditic
the old Nilotes held the
men
moon
Luna and
sacrificing to
Plutarch (De Iside) notes that
deities.
be of " male-female sex," the
to
the
women
Lunus.^
to
also
Isis
was a hermaphrodite, the idea being that Aether or Air
(the
lower heavens) was the menstruum of generative nature
and
Damascius explained the tenet by the
and
all-fruitful
Hence the fragment
powers of the atmosphere.
;
prolific
attributed to
Orpheus, the song of Jupiter (Air)
All things from Jove descend
Jove was a male, Jove was a deathless bride
For men
Julius
;
call Air, of two- fold sex, the Jove.
Firmicus relates that
"The
Assyrians and part of the
Africans " (along the Mediterranean seaboard
the chief element and adore
consecrated under the
Air
of Juno or the Virgin Venus.
Their companies of priests cannot
ckily
effeminate their faces, smooth their
serve her
skins
be
and
disgrace
amid general groans enduring miserable
ance and becoming passives like
women
they
their
men
see
*
«
unless
You may
masculine sex by feminine ornaments.
their very temples
to-
fanciful figure (imaginata figura),
its
name
" hold
?)
in
dalli-
(viros muliebria pati)
and
they expose, with boasting and ostentation, the pollution of the
impure and immodest body."
cance of eunuchry.
Tympanotribas or
Mater,
in
of Atys
'
;
It
Here we
find the religious signifi-
was practised as a
religious rite
Gallus,^ the castrated votary of
Rhea
Phrygia called Cybele, self-mutilated but not
and by a host of other creeds
Arnobius and TertuIIian, with the arrogance of
:
in
by the
or
Bona
memory
even Christianity, as
their caste
and
miserable igno-
its
rance of that symboH.sm wliich often concealed from vulgar eyes the most precious
mysteries, used to taunt
" Consuistis
know
in
precibus
everything
;
they
the heathen for praying to deities whose
'
Seu
tu
made God
Dcus seu
the merest
Dea,'
tu
dicere
work of man's
!
"
sc.k
brains and
Callus lit.^a cock, in pornnlc.gic parlance
is
a capon, a caslrato.
:
men would
armed him with
e despotism of omnipotence wliich rendered their creation truly dreadful.
'
they ignored
Tlic,>c
Terminal Essay.
227
sundry texts show/ could not altogether cast out the old possession.
Here too we have an explanation of Sotadic love
when
stage,
became,
it
see that like
most acceptable offering
to be the
second
matter of superstition.
like cannibalism, a
Assuming a nature-implanted tendency, we
was held
in its
human
God-
to the
sacrifice
it
goddess
in the Orgia or sacred ceremonies, a something set apart
Hence
for peculiar worship.
in
Rome
as in
Egypt the temples of
(Inachidos limina, Isiacai sacraria Luna^) were centres of
isis
sodomy and
the religious practice was
priestly castes
from Mesopotamia to Mexico and Peru.
We
adopted by the grand
find the earliest written notices of the Vice in the mythical
of
destruction
the
Pentapolis (Gen.
Sodom, Gomorrah
xix.),
'Amirah, the cultivated country), Adama, ZeboTm and Zoar
(=
The legend has been amply embroidered by
or Bela.
who make
the Sodomites do everything a renvers
were wounded he was fined
fee the offender
;
and
if
for
till
the ear grew again.
doctors declare the people to have been a race of
judgment which they read
'
it.
The
Luke
live with
29 and Col.
his wife as
if
iii.
St. Paul
5.
(i
The Abclian
he had none.
at the
Corin.
vii.
8-9
North and
Mark
;
29) that a
ix.
43-47
nnn
;
shcukl
heretics of Africa abstained from
Origcn mutilated himself after inter]ircting too
because Abel died virginal.
rigorously Matth. xix. 12, and
preached
they justify the
But the traveller cannot
literally.
examined the lands
have carefully
texts justifying or conjoining castration are Matt, xviii.
xxiii.
women
I
man
a
one cut off the ear of a neighbour's ass
sharpers with rogues for magistrates, and thus
accept
if
bloodshed and was compelled to
he was condemned to keep the animal
The Jewish
the Rabbis,
e.g.
:
was duly excommunicated.
But
his
disciple, the
Arab
Valerius founded (.\.D. 250) the castrated sect called Valerians who, j^ersccuted and
di;.pcrsc(l
by the Emperors Constantinc and Justinian, became the
sjiiritual fathers
modern Skopzis.
These eunuchs
when two
John and Jej'hicm, were iiictropolitans of Kicw
A.D. 10S9 by Princess .\nna Wassewolodowna and
brought
Greek.-.,
ihiiliei in
cinoiiiclcs
Nawjo
or the Corpse.
first
Put
sect arose in the eiicle of l'glit^<•h
which dcvcl.-ped
[Zcilschiifl fur
into the
modem
rqip'-arcd in
in ihc early part
and
in
Sknp/i.
Moscow,
For
of the
Russia at the end of the xith century,
the former was
is
called by the'
of the last ccntiiry (1715- 1733^ a
at first
this
;
called Clisti or llajellants
extensive subject see
Elhn. Deiiin, 1S75) ^"^ Mantega^za, chapt.
vi.
De
Stein
A If Laylah wa
228
at the
South of that most beautiful
whose tranquil
strange disease "
Dead
lake, the so-called
Sea,
backed by the grand plateau of Moab,
loveliness,
an object of admiration to
is
Lay Iah.
save patients suffering from the
all
Holy Land on the
But
Brain."'
I
found no
traces of craters in the neighbourhood, no signs of vulcanism,
"
remains of
water
is
meteoric stones "
a mineralised vegetable washed
and the sulphur and
lake without issue.
salt are
named
asphalt which
the
:
the
out of the limestones,
brought down by the Jordan into a
must therefore look upon the history as a
I
myth which may have served
The
a double purpose.
first
would
his
pagan
be to deter the Jew from the Malthusian practices of
whom
predecessors, upon
no
obloquy was thus
cast, so far
resembling
the scandalous and absurd legend w^hich explained the names of
the children of Lot by Phein(f and
the water or
that
is,
semen of the
The
bastard.
fissure containing the
of Depression "
basin from
:
"
as
"
Ammon"
would also account
lower Jordan and the
L Murchison
late Sir R.
and
father,
fable
Thamma
Moab " (Mu-ab)
as mother's son,
for the
Dead
used wrong-headedly to
abnormal
Sea, which the
call a "
Volcano
feature, that cuts off the river-
this geological
natural outlet the Gulf of Eloth (Akabah), must
its
date from myriads of years before there were
" Cities
of the Plains,"
But the main object of the ancient lawgiver, Osarsiph, Moses
or the Moseida;,
prejudicial
was doubtless
no uncertain voice,
to death
discountenance a perversion
to
to the increase of population.
(Exod.
Whoso
xxii. 19)
:
he speaks with
with a beast shall surely be put
licth
If a
And
man
lie
with mankind as he licth
with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination
they
shall surely
(Lcvit. XX.
woman who
13
lie
;
be put to death
where
v. v.
;
their blood shall be
15-1C threaten with death
with beasts).
:
upon them
man
aiid
Again, There shall be no whore
of the daughters of Israel nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel
(Dcut. xxii.
'
5).
See the marvellously al-surd
Purchas
V.
S4.
(.Icscription
of
the glorious
"Dead Sea"
in
the
229
Terminal Essay.
The
old commentators on the
factory
Parkhurst,
e.g.
Kadesh.
s.v.
Sodom-myth
*'
By
cities.
their sodomitical
acknowledge the Heavens as
to
dependently upon, and
Sodom and
of the
impurities they
meant
the cause
opposition
in
most unsatis-
From hence we may observe
the peculiar propriety of this punishment of
neighbouring
are
of fruitfulness
Jehovah
to
in-
therefore
*;
Jehovah, by raining upon them not genial showers but brimstone
from heaven, not only destroyed the inhabitants, but also changed
that country, which
all
brimstone and
was before as the garden of God, into
not sown nor beareth, neither any grass
salt that is
growcth therein."
It
must be owned that to
dealt very hard measure for religiously
a popular
which a host of
rite
cities
and
even
Naples and Shiraz, to mention no others,
was
this Pentapolis
diligently practising
the present day, as
in
affect for simple
luxury
The myth may probably reduce
itself
to very small proportions, a few Fellah villages destroyed
by a
and
with impunity.
affect
storm, like that which drove Brennus from Delphi.
The Hebrews
entering Syria found
it
religionised
by Assyria
and Babylonia, whence Accadian Ishtar had passed west and had
become Ashtoreth, Ashtaroth
or Ashirah,^ the Anaitis of
Armenia,
the Phoenician Astarte and the Greek Aphrodite, the great
goddess.^
who
queen of Heaven and Love.
is
=
she was Venus Mylitta
'
Jchovali licrc
tl-.em
ce
(jvie
made
is
to play
nous voyons sur
la tcrre."
the
Ankh
or ever-living
silll
f<jund
amongst the euneifornis.
"
The name
still
One
:
an
evil
*
I
am
not quite sure
that
men
destroying
et
insteail of
teaching
nous portons dans
\\\\\
Astaile
is
al-Ashar.i, a
clump of
cicl
le
palpably Egyptian,
is
and
is
trees near the village
Ilermon.
not i)rimarily the
\'cnus
planet
;
but
I
can
Max Muller an'i .'^ir (i. Cox are mistaken in biinging from
Dawn and her atter.dar.ls, the Ch'arite> identit'ied with the \'edic
doubt that Prof.
Of
[arils.
<:;-tinct!y the
-pou^e
!>'
Mauludata
the etymon, however, was learned at Babylon
survives in the ."^hajarat
India Aphrodite the
I
jiart
Tlie idea of Vahweli, or
Al-C;iiajar (of the Gypsies?) at the foot of
hardly
In another phase
the rrocrcatrix, in Chaldaic
Lut, " IS'ous faisons lei Dieus a notie imaj^e
better.
Moon-
1/
I^iitar
Moon
iular,
tlie
in
Accadia, liowever,
I\o>clier
seems
sinkiiig int'j Ainenti (the west, the
Sun-g-d.
Tlii
ag:dn
is
t'.
\\.i\c
Underworld)
pure I'"gyp;ian;Mn.
proved
in
iha;
she
is
search of her lost
A If
230
and
in
Laylah.
Arabic Moawallidah, she who bringeth
worshipped by men habited as
reason
in
change
dress.
the
wa
Laylah
the
women
women and
Torah (Deut. xx,
The male
vice versa
the sexes
5)
of impurity at Aphac, where
Const,
for
which
Kadesh the
to
holy,
themselves up to
being Kadeshah, and doubtless gave
bit.
;
forbidden
are
prostitutes were called
great excesses. Eusebius (De
She was
forth.
55) describes a school
iii. c.
women and
"
men who were
not
men" practised all manner of abominations in honour of the
Demon (Venus). Here the Phrygian symbolism of Kybele and
Attis (Atys) had become the Syrian Ba'al Tammuz and Astarte,
and the Grecian Dionasa and Adonis, the anthropomorphic forms
The
of the two greater lights.
Apheca, now
site,
on the route from Bayrut to the Cedars,
wondrous beauty,
demigod
:
fitting
frame-work
al-Afik
a glen of wild and
is
goddess and
for the loves of
and the ruins of the temple destroyed by Constantine
contrast with Nature's work, the glorious
which feeds the River Ibrahim and
vitro,
Wady
fountain, splendidior
at
still
times Adonis
runs purple to the sea.'
The
We
Phcenicians spread this androgynic worship over Greece.
the
find
consecrated
servants
and votaries of Corinthian
Aphrodite called Hierodouli (Strabo
thousand
courtesans
in
gracing
viii. 6),
who
the Venus-tcmplc
excessive luxury arose the proverb popularised
heretics, a
" Bilid B'sharrah,"
Moslems accuse
I
vows
exists.
their
old
The people
wonien
sacrifice
-.'.peis'.ition is
t^j
of
race,
\'i.mis
unknown
the anthropologist.
this
One
by no means obsolete.
t-i
is
and point
like
— the
to
the
pilgrimage to the
at
Cliristian province in
hold high
festival
Orthodox
lamps and rags which
Lady's tree
found only here and
Kasrawan, a
a!.-,o
still
Sayyidat al-Kabirah, the Great Lady.
they suspend to a tree entitled Shajarat al-Sitt
which, according to some travellers,
avenue
is
would derive from Bayt Ashirah,
to the
tlicm of alxjminaLle oigies
by a peculiarly prurieiU
from
people of Persian descent and Shiite tenets, and the peasantry of
wliich
niins and address their
:
by Horace.
In this classical land of \'enus the worship of Ishtar-Ashtaroth
'
The Metawali
aided the ten
— an
Acacia Albida
Sayda (Sidon) where on
tlie
Libanus, inhabited
under the farfamed Cedars and
the Ka'lashali of the I'lircniciaii-.
Tliis survival of
mi-siouary " Handbooks, V but am;'ly deserves the study of
Terminal Essay.
231
of the head-quarters of the cult was Cyprus where, as Servius
(Ad
relates
IEx\.
bearded
stood the simulacre of a
632),
ii.
Aphrodite with feminine body and costume, sceptered and mitred
like
The sexes when worshipping
a man.
and here the virginity was offered
exchanged habits
it
in sacrifice
Herodotus
:
(i.
c.
199)
describes this defloration at Babylon but sees only the shameful
was a mere consecration of a
part of the custom which
Everywhere
girls before
tribal rite.
marriage belong either to the father or to
the clan and thus the maiden paid the debt due to the public before
becoming private property as a
in ancient
Armenia and
in parts
much
us that a practice very
c.
5)
and probably
The same usage
of Ethiopia
like the
in certain parts of the Island of
(xviii.
wife.
;
and Herodotus
"
Babylonian
Cyprus: "
it
prevailed
is
found also
is
by Justin
noticed
explains the " Succoth Benoth " or
it
Damsels' booths which the Babylonians transplanted to the
The Jews seem very
of Samaria.^
were also sodomites
in the land
in the
Rehoboam
the reign of wicked
In
cities
successfully to have copied the
abominations of their pagan neighbours, even
'*dog."^
tells
matter of the
"There
(B.C. 975)
and they did according
to all the
abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out before the
children of Israel "
King Asa
zealous
pricstess
'
of
of
Kings
(i
(B.C. 958)
Priapus
The
xiv. 20).
whose grandmother^ was high-
(princeps
Some commentators understand "
women " and the Rabbis declare
;
scandal was abated by
sacris
in
Priapi)
he
:
"
took
the tabernacles sacred to the reproductive powers
that
the
emblem was
the figure
of a setting
hen.
'
"Dog"
is
applied
by the
older
thus they understand
the "price
Temple (Deut.
xxiii.
iS).
and can only remark
that
I
it
have
is
long infected Savoy.
li'jcl
l.cr title,
it
temple.
xith century
in
and the Catamite; and
not
be brought into the
one of the derivations of cinxdus
np-n thj canine
tribe.
according to some, "King's
\s\\o rejected
part of worship in their spk-n.liil
cratians, followed in the
ni>tic<d
a vile
Her name was Maachah ami
founded llic sect of Communists
•*
to the .Sodomite
Jews
of a don;" which could
marriage and
.Such were the
made
mother": she
adultery and
Iia.^iii.ms
a:id
liu;
incest
rarjio-
by Tranchelin, v/hosc sectarians, the Turlupit.s,
Alf Laylah wa
232
away
Laylah.
the sodomites out of the land
prophets were loud
Kings xv.
(i
Isaiah (B.C. 760), " except the Lord of Hosts had
very small remnant,
we should have been
amongst other things, " brake
that were
hangings
(pueris
"
(i.
King Josiah
down the houses
to us
left
Sodom
as
strong measures were required from good
who
Yet the
12).
their complaints, especially the so-called
in
9)
;
a
and
(B.C. 641)
of the sodomites
by the house of the Lord, where the women wove
for the
alienis
grove "
(2
Kings
adhaeseverunt)
Thebordelsof boys
xxiii. 7).
appear
have
to
near the
been
Temple.
At Damascus
not forgotten her old " praxis."
Syria has
I
found some noteworthy cases amongst the religious of the great
Amawi Mosque. As
(Travels in Syria,
for the
etc.,
p.
Druses we have Burckhardt's authority
202)
"
unnatural propensities are very
common amongst them."
The
Zone covers
Sotadic
the
Mesopotamia now occupied by the
of born
pederasts
peculiarity
of
;
the
and
in
of Asia
whole
"
unspeakable Turk," a race
we
the former region
feminine
figure,
Minor and
mamm^
the
jacentes et pannosae, which prevails over
notice a
first
inclinatae,
this part of the belt.
all
women to the North and South have, with
the mammae stantes of the European virgin,*
Whilst the
local ex-
ceptions,
those of
Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan and Kashmir lose
of the bosom, sometimes even before the
the hemispheres take the form of bags.
climate only
;
the
women
first
all
the fine curves
child
;
of Maratha-land, inhabiting a
'
A
virginal
noted
;
while the
exception
is
in the villages
nomad Turcomans
Vienna remarkable
bosom which soon becomes pcndulent.
for
it
tlie
damper
for fine firm breasts
even after parturition. Le Vice of course prevails more
and towns of Asiatic Turkey than
after
This cannot result from
and hotter region than Kashmir, are noted
are infected
and
;
in the cities
yet even these
contrast badly in this
enormous development
of the
Terminal Essay,
Badawin of India. The Kurd
of Iranian origin, which means that the evil is
point with
the
population
is
deeply rooted
Gypsies, those
have noted
I
:
character
their national
The Armenians,
women
boys
to
:
Georgia
Turkey
supplied
as
gain
prostitute themselves for
will
is,
that the great and
The Nights
in
was a habitual pederast.
glorious Saladin
but prefer
233
with
In Mesopotamia the
catamites whilst Circassia sent concubines.
barbarous invader has almost obliterated the ancient civilisation
which
only by the Nilotic
ante-dated
is
Babylon nowhere survive save
in certain
Mandseans, the Devil-worshippers and
we
Persia
I
find the reverse of
Armenia
the mysteries of old
:
obscure tribes like the
Entering
the Ali-ilahi.
and, despite Herodotus,
;
believe that Iran borrowed her pathologic love from the peoples
of the Tigris-Euphrates Valley and not from the then insignificant
bred
the bone.
in
account for
find
it
^
be
begins
It
by paternal
none of the
Onanism
in
boyhood and many Persians
Youths arrived
severity.
father's
if
slave-girls
or
mutuum
and concubines would be
known
and
Hence
all
Temperament,
faccre.
to
Gen.
hi',
:
the
xxxviii. 2-ii.
The reader
dtiiM'es a
and
object
is
Amongst
often
returns
ilie
after
marrying
Gan)'mcde.
the
to
tlic cl^l-^ics
of
"she";
Arab poet
it
The
on to the
pa^t'irs.
Ni;^hts has
but the Arab,
is
a P.adawi.
'llah
=
Allah assain
fanciful but
Mercury
son Pan who wandered about the mountains
Echo and Pan pas-ed
'
and
;
and
media,
the odes of Hafiz arc addressed to youths, as pro\'cd
(masculine)-
'
Paterfamilias
Arabic exclamations as 'Afaka
such
use each other
as Alish-Takish, the Lat.
atavism recommend the custom to the general
begetting heirs,
puberty
at
by circumcision, and
Hence they
not death.
turns, a "puerile practice"
vicibus
now
is
with which Europe supplies fornication.
facilities
punishment
risking cruel
faccre
origin, the corruption
its
to a certain extent discouraged
is
meddling with the
by
may
But whatever
Greeks.
tavit'Ju
it
th.c
in
thcc
would be held
"Art
of
ie
Thnlaba
di.-^traut;ht wii!i love for ihc
See Thalaba
by
"
Nymrh
Mirabeau.
remarked how often the
when uncontaminatcd by
"he"
travel,
in
Ara]i;c ]<',try
ign;re>
[
eder.ist)-,
^
wa
-^^f Laylah
234
Laylah.
coarse and immodest to address an imaginary
penchant
tration of the
told
is
at
An
girl.^
illus-
Shiraz concerning a certain
Mujtahid, the head of the Shi'ah creed, corresponding with a
prince-archbishop in Europe.
a question
is
would
I
the daring to do
O
this,
is
friend once said to him, "
your Eminence but
fain address to
so." "
Mujtahid
A
There
I
lack
fear not," replied the Divine. " It
Ask and
Figure thee in a garden of roses and
!
hyacinths with the evening breeze waving the cypress-heads, a
youth of twenty
fair
What,
perfect privacy.
man bowed
sitting
by thy
prithee,
side and
would be the
the assurance of
result
V
The holy
the chin of doubt upon the collar of meditation
too honest to
lie,
presently whispered, " Allah defend
such temptation of Satan
!
"
Yet even
in Persia
;
me from
men have not
been wanting who have done their utmost to uproot the Vice
the
same Shiraz they speak of a
flagrant delict, put
Such
him
us that houses of male prostitution were
women were unknown
:
in
:
father who, finding his son in
Lynch
to death like Brutus or
common
same
the
is
of Galway.
Chardin
isolated cases, however, can effect nothing.
those of
and,
tells
in Persia whilst
the case in
the
present day and the boys are prepared with extreme care by diet,
baths, depilation, unguents and a
Le Vice
looked upon at most as a peccadillo and
is
up
crops
Shaykh
host of artists in
in
every jest-book.
When
the Isfahan
cosmetics.
its
man mocked
by comparing the bald pates of Shirazian
Sa'adi
mention
elders to
the bottom of a lota, a brass cup with a wide-ncckcd opening used
Hammam,
in the
thereto
likened
the witty poet turned
the
well-abuscd
aperture upwards and
its
podex of an Isfahani youth.
Another favourite piece of Shirazian "cliaff"
Mohammed
addrosk'd his girl-wife Ayishah
'
So
*
So amongst the Romans we have
gymnast's perspiring
" Massage"
or
;
shampooers
;
who
to declare
that
the masculine.
the latroliptoe, youths or girls ulio wiped the
body with swan-down,
Unctores
in
is
a practice
renewed hy the professors
applied perfumes and essences
Dropacistie, corn-cutters; Alijnlarii
;
of
Fricatiics and Tractatrices
who plucked
the hair, etc., etc, etc.
Terminal Essay.
when an
Isfahan father would set up his son in business he pro-
him with a pound of
vides
235
meaning
rice,
that he can sell the result
as compost for the kitchen-garden, and with the price
buy another
hence the saying Khakh-i-pai kdhu=the
the lettuce-
meal
:
The
root.
Isfahanis retort with the
name
soil at
of a station or halting-
making
place between the two cities where, under pretence of
travellers
raped
stow away their riding-gear,
" Zi'n
hence
:
and saddle-cloth
caught
Harem
in the
and expose them
I
o takaltu tu bi-bar
A
!
many
favourite Persian
or
to the
Gynaeceum
is
=
"
a Shirdzi had been
carry within saddle
punishment
to strip
for strangers
and throw them
embraces of the grooms and negro- slaves.
once asked a Shirazi how penetration was possible
if
the patient
and
resisted with all the force of the sphincter muscle: he smiled
said, "
Ah, we Persians know a
trick to get over that
sharpened tent-peg to the crupper-bone
till lie
last
A
opens."
(os coccygis)
in his
:
dishonoured person
full
whom
and knock
he had infuriated by his con-
memoirs he alludes
;"
to
it
by mentioning
About the same time
significance of the confession.
of Bushirc, a
man famed
for facetious
blackguardism, used to invite European j'oungsters serving
Bombay Marine and
Next morning
had caused
ply them witli licjuor
till
"
Scrogin
"
and soreness
would ask
champagne
a
grey-beard slave was dragged
struggling with
fours
all
his strength.
Me was
if
they had ever
a dozen peppercorns were
in
the
in
blaspheming and
presently placed on
and firmly held by the extremities;
down and
The
in la parte-postc.
his guests
seen a man-cannon (Adami-top); and, on their replying
negative,
the
in
they were insensible.
the middies mostly complained that the
a curious irritation
same Eastern
his
but English readers cannot comprehend
Shaykh Nasr, Governor
let
a
generation was subjected to this gross insult by one of the
version-mania
the
;
well-known missionary to the East during the
Persian Prince-governors,
"
we apply
were
his bag-ti<aiscrs
inserted ano sun
target was a sheet of paper held at a reasonable distance
all
:
;
the
the
Alf Laylah
236
zva Laylah.
match was applied by a pinch of cayenne
in the nostrils
the
;
sneeze started the grapeshot and the number of hits on the butt
decided the
Persian
the
bets.
women
VVe can hardly wonder at the loose conduct of
perpetually mortified by marital pederasty. During
unhappy campaign of 1856-57
a few brilliant skirmishes,
in which,
we gained no
with the exception of
glory, Sir
James Outram
and the Bombay army showing how badly they could work, there
was a formal outburst of the Harems
and even women of
;
princely birth could not be kept out of the officers' quarters.
The
cities
of Afghanistan and Sind are thoroughly saturated
with Persian vice, and the people sing
Kadr-i-kus
Aughdn ddnad, kadr-i-kunrd Kdbuli
The worth
of coynte the Afghan knows
The Afghans
each caravan
almost
is
:
Cabul prefers the other chose^}
are commercial travellers on a large scale and
accompanied by a number of boys and lads
woman's
in
:
with kohl'd eyes and rouged cheeks,
attire
long tresses and henna'd fingers and toes, riding luxuriously
in
Kajawas or camel-panniers
or
wives, and
travelling
In
sides.
the
Afghanistan
:
they are
husbands trudge
also
a
Kuch-i
called
safari,
patiently
by
their
debauchery broke out
frantic
amongst the women when they found incubi who were not
pederasts
;
and the scandal was not the most
insignificant cause
of the general rising at Cabul (Nov. 1841), and the slaughter of
Macnaghten, Burncs and other British
Resuming our way Eastward we
officers.
find
Moslems of the Panjab much addicted
Himalayan
tribes to the north
and Marathas, ignore
'
It
is
it.
to
the
Lc
Sikhs
and
the
Vice, although the
and those lying south, the Rajputs
The same may be
a parody on the well-known song (Roebuck
i.
said of the
sect. 2,
No. 1602)
:
The golfismith know^ tlie worth of gold^ jewellers worth of jewelry
The worth of rose Bulbul can tell and Kambar's worth his Ir.rd, Ali.
;
Kash-
—
:
Terminal Essay.
who add another Kappa
mirians
Kretans, and Kih'cians
:
to the tria Kakista,
uftad, az in sih jins
Eki Afghdn, dovvum
Sindi,'
men
of
Kappadocians,
the proverb says,
Agar kaht-i-mardum
Though
237
kam
gfrl
;
siyyum badjins-i-Kashmfr(
there be famine yet shun these three
Afghan, Sindi and rascally Kashmirf.
M.
Louis
Daville
describes
the
infamies
Lakhnau where he found men dressed
as
Lahore
of
and
women, with flowing
locks under crowns of flowers, imitating the feminine walk and
and fashion of speech, and ogling
gestures, voice
with
the coquetry of bayaderes.
all
Victor Jacquemont's Journal
de Voyage describes the pederasty of
Ranji't Singh, the "
of the Panjab," and his pathic Gulab Singh
inflicted
upon Cashmir as
Yet the Hindus,
as
much
Gandu
1
ruler
my
1S43-44
whom
by way of paying
for his treason.
and are
Gand-mara (anus-boater) or
Englishmen would
as
regiment, almost
During the years
be.
Hindu Sepoys of
all
Lion
the English
repeat, hold pederasty in abhorrence
scandalised by being called
(anuscr)
their admirers
the
Bombay
Presidency, was stationed at a purgatory called Bandar Gharrd,^
a sandy
flat
wfth a scatter of verdigris-green milk-bush some forty
The
north of Karachi the head-quarters.
miles
mud-and-mat
village, could
hovels,
which
represented
woman
not supply a single
the
;
dirty heap of
adjacent
native
yet only one case of
pederasty came to light and that after a tragical fashion some
years
afterwards.
soldier
A
young J]rahman had connection with a
comrade of low caste and
unhappy hour, the Pariah
The
latter,
contempt
'
Arab. Al-l"a'il
Al-Maful
=
peasant and ollicrs vary the
See " Sind Revisited"
i.
had continued
patient ventured to
For "Sindi" Koc'mcl^ (Oriental
a ranjahi
-
in
like
this
n;-iv
=
tlie
the "doer,"
"
done
I'l'ivi-rl'S
j-a}iii;.;
ad
T.irt
"
i.
liiiituni.
;
p.
till,
an
become the agent.
is
and
not an object of
the
high-caste
99) h.m Kuiilm
Slc
in
vol, vi.
156.
(Kumboh)
Alf Laylah wa Laylah
238
sepoy, stung by remorse and revenge, loaded
deliberately
martial
shot
He was
paramour.
his
Hyderabad and, when
at
his
of
endless
feet
the idea being
;
"
below the waist," would be
transmigrations
through the lowest forms
by exiting
that his soul, polluted
to
by court
wishes were asked
last
he begged in vain to be suspended by the
doomed
musket and
his
hanged
life.
Beyond
India,
have stated, the
I
broaden out embracing
Chinese, as far as
and
vorous
we know them
they
:
the great
cities,
are omni-
people
chosen
the
are
systematic
their
and other animals
in
Kaempfer
and Orlof Torde (Voyage en Chine) notice the public houses
boys and youths
describes
in
for
Mirabeau (L'Anandryne)
China and Japan.
tribadism of their
the
of
with ducks, goats,
bestiality
equalled only by their pederasty.
is
to
The
China, Turkistan and Japan.
all
omnifutuentes
debauchery and
Zone begins
Sotadic
women
When
hammocks.
in
Pekin was plundered the Harems contained a number of balls
a
made
than the old musket-bullet,
larger
little
of thin silver
with a loose pellet of brass inside somewhat like a grelot
women between
were placed by the
articles
of
artifice
luxury,
to
was. to
the glans
pills
which, dissolved in water and
penis, cause
to
it
'
women
They must
with the grclots
in the
lascifs,
the
so
:
could
arti-
takes the place
little
bells of gold or
prepuce-skin, and described by Nicole de Conti
refused to undergo the operation.
Relation des
Vespucci's
les
not be confounded
by the people of Pegu
now
swell
The Chinese
increase the size of their husbands' parts.-
who however
'
and
throb
bracelet of caoutchouc studded with points
silver set
titillation
perfumes and singular
erotic
according to Amerigo Vespucci American
ficially
these
They have every
be procured.
aphrodisiacs,
Such are the
applications.
applied
better
:
the labia and an
up-and-down movement on the bed gave a pleasant
when nothing
^
letter
Americains.
decouvertes
in
Ramusio
faites
(i.
par
131)
Colomb
and
etc.
Fare's
p.
137
:
Recherches
Bologna
1875
•
^^^^
philosophiqacs sur
Terminal Essay.
239
of the Herisson, or Annulus hirsutus,' which was bound between
Of
the glans and prepuce.
of the Arbor
phallus and
vitae
"
a cone of ribbed horn
For the use of men
article
and
a heart-shaped
" ^
slit
with an
and one below lash
of thin skin
vagina
artificial
two tapes
:
The
to the back of a chair.
it
Chinese and Japanese
erotic literature of the
and
letter " to
French
an instrument of torture.
stuffed with cotton
at the top
(whence our "dildo"), every kind abounds,
"
merkin,
like
they have the
called
the French godemichd and the Italians
diletto
varying from a stuffed
which looks
Kosmou, which the Latins
or Soter
fascinum,^
passatempo and
the penis succedaneus, that imitation
highly developed
is
All
their illustratibns are often facetious as well as obscene.
are familiar with that of the strong
man who by
enormous phallus shivers a copper pot
trast of the
and
Domine
know
from
escape
my
the Isle of
in
wrinkled
and
Of Turkistan we know
Dolittles.
confirms
it,
his
Women
true
shrivelled,
little,
Mr. Schuyler
statement.
blow with
and the ludicrous con-
;
huge-membered wights who land
presently
a
but what
his Turkistan
in
132) offers an illustration of a " Batchah " (Pers. bachcheh
(i.
catamite), " or
t!ic
Tartars Master
addicted
arc
Dr.
singing-boy surrounded
to
to decide a
(v.
The
They
"
419),
difficult
=
Of
admirers."
learned casuist
Kad-
the Spaniard had (says Mirabeau in
concerning the sinfulness
question
The
of a peculiar erotic perversion.
Manilla a tailed
his
Purchas laconically says
Sodomie or Buggerie."
Thomas Sanchez
husch)
by
we
Jesuits brought
man whose moveable
home from
prolongation of the os
See Mantegazza loc. cit. who borrows from the These de Paris of Dr. Abel Hureau
dc Vilk-neuve, " Frictiones per cuitum productx' niai^num mucos.'c nieinbranx vaginalis
'
turgorem,
ac
hujus
siniul
cuniculi
coarctationein
lam maritis
salacibus
quxritatain
atTcrunt."
'
Fascinus
sacrificed
•*
;
is
the Priapus-f;cid to
also the
neck-charm
Captain Grose (Lexicon
women's
privy
p.arts.
dOcS not contain
tlic
whom
the Vestal Virgins of
in phallus->hai)c.
Bala;roriicum)
See Bail-y's Diet."
word which
1:5
now
F'ascinum
explaip.s
The
is
Rome,
professed tnbades,
the male inember.
merkin as " cjunteriut
Bailey of 1704, an " imj.ri
generally
aj'iilicd tj a cun:.;:-
>. (..1
liair
for
tdiiion,"
-u.ce^.r.cus.
A If Laylah wa
240
LaylaK
coccygis measured from 7 to 10 inches:
he had placed himself
between two women, enjoying one naturally while the other used
his
The
a penis succedaneus.
as
tail
sodomy and simple
For the islands north of Japan,
fornication.
the "Sodomitical Sea," and the
"
nayle of tynne " thrust through
the prepuce to prevent sodomy, see Lib
Thomas
was incomplete
verdict
ii.
chap. 4 of Master
Caudish's Circumnavigation, and vol.
of Pinkerton's
vi.
Geography translated by Walckenaer.
Passing over to America
we
Zone contains
find that the Sotadic
the whole hemisphere from Behring's Straits to Magellan's.
prevalence of " mollities
astonishes the anthropologist,
"
This
who
is
apt to consider pederasty the growth of luxury and the especial
product of great and civilised
unknown
to simple savagery
cities,
where the births of both sexes are
about equal and female infanticide
New World
of the
is
this perversion
depravity of taste
—
campos abounded
in
unnecessary and therefore
confirmed
not practised.
many
parts
was accompanied by another
cannibalism.^
game from
In
the
The
forests
and
deer to the pheasant-like
penelope, and the seas and rivers produced an unfailing supply
of excellent
ferred the
A
of
and
fish
shell-fish
meat of man
Even
his
which arc
supposed
(i.
yet the Brazilian Tupis pre-
^
proves the abnormal development
New World,
the savages and barbarians of the
Hyperboreans
half-frozen
temperature"
;
to every other food.
glance at Mr. Bancroft
sodomy amongst
^
develop
to
"
58).
" possess
most
freely
the
all
passions
under a
The voluptuousness and polygamy
milder
of the
North American Indians, under a temperature of almost perpetual
'
I
have noticed
this
excellent translation of
''
phenomenal cannibaHsm
The
Captivity of
in
my
Hans Stade
notes to
.Nfr.
of Hesse: "
All-ert
Tootle's
London, Hakhiyt
Society, mdccclxxiv.
-
The
me
Ijy
'
Ostreiras or shell
in
TIk'
E.-cr'^'t,
mounds
Anthropologia No.
Native Races of
i.
tiie
of the Brazil, sometimes 2cx> feet hiyh, are described
Oct. 1S73.
Pacific
London. T,ong;nan>, iS?'.
Slates of South America,
by Herbert
Howe
"
Terminal Essay.
winter
is
than that of the most sensual tropical nations"
far greater
(Martin's Brit. Colonies
most remarkable
him
him
rear
work, associating
or fifteen years, he
duties,
keeping
him with women and
girls, in
is
Arriving at the age of ten
are called Achnutschikor Schopans
Holmberg, Langsdorff,
'*
is
"
These male concubines
Lisiansky and Marchand).
Nutka Sound and
the case in
the Aleutian Islands,
male concubinage obtains throughout, but not
affection
regards
(the authorities quoted being
Billing, Choris,
extent as amongst the Koniagas."
to the
same
objects of " unnatural
The
have their beards carefully plucked out as soon as the
face-hair begins to grow,
of the
man who
married to some wealthy
such a companion as a great acquisition.
where
of all
Kadiak mother
him only domestic
as a girl, teaching
order to render his effeminacy complete.
The same
A
that of male concubinage.
is
women's
at
The most repugnant
81-82), "
(i.
Kadiak Island
the Koniagas of
her handsomest and most promising boy, and dress
will select
and
Of
instances.
can quote only a few of the
I
524),
iii.
and the Thinkleets we read
their practices
241
women.
and
their chins
In California the
practice, the youths being called
first
are tattooed like those
missionaries found the
Joya (Bancroft, i.41
5
same
and authorities
Palon, Crespi, Boscana, Mofras, Torqucmada, Duflot and Pages).
The Comanches
unite incest with
sodomy
(i.
515).
"
In
New Mexico
according to Arlegui, Ribas, and other authors, male concubinage
prevails
to
humanity,
great
a
whom
to
extent,
these
loathsome
beastly were a
call
slander upon
in
women,
weapons being denied them
the
clothes
of
beasts,
and perform the functions of
dress themselves
the use of
semblances
"
(i.
Pcelcrasty
5S5).
was systematically practised by the peoples of Cucba, Carcta, and
other parts of Central America.
headmen kept harems
unclean
office,
771>-7A)-
were dressed as women.
VOL. X.
Of
the
of
llie
of youths who, as soon as destined for the
of Camayoas, and were hated
(i-
The Caciques and some
Xahua
They went
b}'
and detested by the
nations Father Pierre de
the nanie
c^ood wives
Gand
Q
(alias
AIJ Laylah wa Laylah,
342
de Musa) writes, "
Un
certain
de femmes, sed eoruin
^tait
commun dans
si
infect^s
;
y
ils
prdtres n'avaient point
ce pays que, jeunes ou vieux, tous etaient
si
adonn^s que m^mes
Mayas of Yucatan Las Casas
the
unnatural " lust
"
prevalence of
Ce pdch^
pueros quibiis abutebanttir.
enfants de six ans
les
(Ternaux-Campans, Voyages, Sdrie
s'y livraient "
Among
Etaient
loco
nombre de
made
i.
Tom.
x. p. 197).
declares that the great
parents anxious to see their
progeny wedded as soon as possible (Kingsborough's Mex. Ant.
viii.
In Vera Paz a god, called
135).
Cavial and Maran, taught
Some
god.
if
by committing the
fathers gave their sons a
any other approached
Yucatan
In
it
by some Chin and by others
this pathic
images were
boy
act with another
found by Bernal
Diaz
sodomitical propensities of the people (Bancroft
Pauw
(Recherches Philosophiques sur
1771) has
much
Mexico generally:
cruelties
of
Peru
the
it
like
in
women,
and from Diaz and
;
others we gather that ^ho: pecado 7iefando was the
in
De
According to Gomara there were
Tamalipas houses of male prostitution
Mexico and
198).
v.
men married youths who, dressed
were forbidden to carry arms.
at
proving the
Americains, London,
les
to say about the subject in
the northern provinces
woman, and
to use as a
he was treated as an adulterer.
might have caused,
Conquistadores.
if it
Pederasty
rule.
Both
in
did not justify, the
was
also general
throughout Nicaragua, and the early explorers found
it
amongst
the indigenes of Panama.
We
have authentic details concerning Le Vice
942,
etc.),
not
in
the translated extracts of Purchas
the
cruelly
castrated
tells
us that "at
form
preferred
Speaking of the
Council of the Hakluyt Society.
Indians he
Peru and
who must
adjacent lands, beginning with Cieza dc Leon,
in the original or in
in
its
be read
(vol.
v.
by the
New Granada
Old Port (Porto Viejo) and Puna, the
Deuill so farre prcva}-lcd in their beastly Deuotions that there
were Boyes consecrated to scrue
their Sacrifices
in
the
Temple
;
and
at the times of
and Solemne Feasts, the Lords and principal! men
"
;
243
Terminal Essay.
abused them to that detestable
worship.
peculiar
;
"
filthinesse
Generally in the
performed their
i.e.
hill-countries
under the show of holiness, had introduced the practice
more which were
attired like
;
for
or two
temple or chief house of adoration kept one
Devil,
the
every
men
or
the time of their
women, even from
childhood, and spake like them, imitating them in everything
with these, under pretext of holiness and religion, their principal
men on
Speaking of the
had commerce.
principal days
the Giantsl at Point Santa Elena, Cieza says (chap.
detested by the natives, because in using their
them, and their
that
men
they killed
punishment proportioned
a
When
enormity of their offence.
women
they were
All the natives declare
also in another way.
God brought upon them
Hi.),
arrival of
to the
they were engaged together
their accursed intercourse, a fearful
and
terrible fire
in
came down
from Heaven with a great noise, out of the midst of which there
Angel with a
issued a shining
blow they were
all
glittering sword,
and the
killed
fire
wherewith at one
consumed thcm.^
There
remained a few bones and skulls which God allowed to bide un-
consumed by the
as a memorial of this punishment.
fire,
In the
Hakluyt Society's bowdlerisation we read of the Tumbcz Islanders
being "very vicious,
offence"
(p.
24)
;
many
also, " If
commit the abominable
him a woman."
The Indians
of
of
them committing the abominable
by the advice of the Devil any Indian
crime,
In chapters
Huancabamba,
it is
lii.
"
thought
and
little
of and they call
we
find exceptions.
Iviii.
although so near the peoples of
Puerto Vicjo and Guayaquil, do not commit the abominable
and
the
Scrranos, or
island
mountaineers,
as
sin
sorcerers
;
and
magicians inferior to the coast peoples, were not so much addicted
sodomy.
to
'
All Peruvian historians
mention these giants, who were probably the large-limbed
Caribs (Carafbes) of the Brazil
*
This sounds much like a
version of the
Sodom
legend.
:
they will be noticed in page 244.
pious
fraud of the
missionaries, a
Europeo-Amencan
^^f Laylah wa Laylah,
244
The Royal Commentaries
of a
of the Yncas shows that the
modern
comparatively
growth.
In
was
evil
early period ot
the
Peruvian history the people considered the crime "unspeakable
if
a Cuzco Indian, not of Yncarial blood,
One
of the
having reported
generals
but one here and one there,
nor was
it
who
habitants but only of certain persons
many
for
days.
Ynca Ccapacc
the
to
Yupanqui that there were some sodomites, not
*'
the
angrily addressed
term pederast to another, he was held infamous
:"
the valleys,
in all
the in-
a habit of
all
practised
privately,"
it
the ruler ordered that the criminals should be publicly burnt alive
and
and
their houses, crops
his abomination, he
be treated
where we
if
commanded
man
one
learn, "
trees destroyed
fell
moreover, to show
:
that the whole village should so
into this habit (Lib,
There were sodomites
iii.
some
in
not openly nor universally, but some particular
cap.
Else-
13).
provinces, though
men and
in secret.
In some parts they had them in their temples, because the Devil
persuaded them that the Gods took great delight
and thus the Devil acted as a
that
the Gentiles
commit
it
for this
felt
in public
and
traitor to
such people,
in
remove the
veil of
shame
crime and to accustom them to
common."
in
During the times of the Conquistadores male concubinage had
become
Nuno de Guzman
most
fought
in 1530,
*'
couragiously,
woman, which confessed
by
Under
^
draws
The
last
was
a
are told
by
which was taken, and which
man
in
the
habite
of a
that from a childe he had gotten his liuing
that filthinesse, for which
Lopez
At Cuzco, we
the rule throughout Peru.
a frightful
I
caused him to be burned."
of pathologic
picture
the reigns which followed
that of
love
V. F.
in
Peru.
Inti-Kapak (Ccapacc)
Amauri, the country was attacked by invaders of a giant race
coming from the sea
:
they practised pederasty after a
shameless that the conquered tribes were compelled to
1
Les Races Aryennes du Perou,
Paris,
Franck, 1871.
fasliion
(ly
(j).
so
271).
Terminal Essay.
245
Under the pre-Yncarial Amauta, or priestly dynasty, Peru had lapsed
into savagery
and the kings of Cuzco preserved only the name.
Toutes ces hontes
infames,
la bestiality et
de voir
ofifensees
de deux vices
et toutes ces mis^res provenaient
la
Les femmes
sodomie.
surtout ^taient
Elles
nature frustr^e de tous ses droits.
la
pleuraient ensemble en leurs reunions sur le miserable ^tat dans
lequel elles ^taient tombees, sur le mepris avec lequel elles ^taient
*
trait^es.
s'aimaient
monde
Le
*
*
*
^tait
renvers^,
hommes
les
*
^taient jaloux les uns des autres.
et
moycns de remedier au mal
cherchaient, mais en vain, les
employaient des herbes
diaboliques
des recettes
et
Elles
;
elles
qui
leur
ramenaient bien quelques individus, mais ne pouvaient arr^ter
progr^s incessants du vice.
moyen
veritable
age,
When
Sinchi
ebb.
Ni
dura
la
(the xcvth of Montesinos
prudence
he
de
found
I'lnca,
morals
ni
les
and the
at
lois
en furent
maris.
si
II
rcprit avec
grand nombre
jalouses qu'un
Les devins
et
une nouvelle violence,
s^v^res
sorciers
les
d'elles
passaient
le
et les
xcist
lowest
the
avait promulgu^es n'avaient pu extirper enti6rement
centre nature.
du
I'^tablissement
jusqu'a
277).
(p
became Ynca,
of Garcilazo)
"
Roko
Cet ^tat de choses constitua un
qui
gouvernement des Incas"
les
qu'il
peche
femmes
tu6rent
leurs
leurs journdes
A
avec certaines herbes, des compositions magiques qui
fabriquer,
rcndaicnt fous ceux qui en mangaient, et les
femmes en
faisaient
prendre, soit dans les aliments, soit dans la chicha, A ceux dont
cllcs etaient jalouses " (p. 291).
I
for
have remarked that the Tupi races of the Brazil were infamous
cannibalism and
as proved
followed
in
by the
sodomy
;
nor could the latter be only racial
that colonists of pure Lusitanian
fact
the path of the savages.
Costa Aguiar'
is
outspoken upon
'
Ijia,:il
L-
Sr.
this point.
blood
Antonio August© da
"
A
OS Biazilciros, Santos, 1862.
crime whicli
in
A If
34^
England leads
Layla h wa Ldylah-
to the gallows,
and which
abject depravity, passes with impunity
pating in
Ah
!
of almost
the wrath of
if
crimes
it
{delictos),
all
or of
many
Heaven were
more than one
to
is
the very measure of
amongst us by the
{de quasi todos, ou de muitos).
fall
by way of punishing such
Empire, more than a
city of this
dozen, would pass into the category of the
"
Sodoms and Gomorrahs
Till late years pederasty in the Brazil
(p. 30).
as a peccadillo
of the wild
;
partici-
was looked upon
the European immigrants following the practice
men who were naked but not, as Columbus said,
One of Her Majesty's Consuls used to
" clothed in innocence."
tell
a tale of the hilarity provoked in a " fashionable " assembly by
the open declaration of a young gentleman that his mulatto* patient"
had suddenly turned upon him, insisting upon becoming
Now, however, under the
agent.
and respect
influences of improved education
the public opinion of Europe, pathologic love
for
amongst the Luso-Brazilians has been reduced to the normal
limits.
Outside the Sotadic Zone,
endemic
:
puberty, they say,
the
same
I
have
said,
Le Vice
sporadic, not
is
yet the physical and moral effect of great cities where
in
to flourish.
induced earlier than
is
country
in
sites,
has been
most lands, causing modesty to decay and pederasty
The Badawi Arab
is
wholly pure of Le Vice
yet
;
San'a the capital of Al-Yaman and other centres of population
have long been and
of
Zu
still
are thoroughly infected.
Shanitir, tyrant of
to entice
young men
"Arabia
tiiis
tells
us
A.D. 478, wJio used
and cause them
into his palace
the windows:
be cast out of
Felix," in
History
after
use to
unkindly ruler was at
last
poinarded by the youth Zcrash, known from his long ringlets as
"
Zu Nowas." The negro
tribadism.
race
is
mostly untainted by sodomy and
Yet Joan dos Sanctos' found
Africa certain
"
Chibudi, wliich are
'
men
Aethiopia Oricnlalis, Purchas
in
Cacongo of West
attyred like
ii.
155S.
women
aiid
Terminal Essay.
247
behaue themselves womanly, ashamed to be called men
;
are also
married to men, and esteem that vnnaturale damnation an honor."
Madagascar
Dahomey
In the Empire of
girls.
and singing boys dressed as
also delighted in dancing
noted a corps of prostitutes
I
kept for the use of the Amazon-soldieresses.
North of the Sotadic Zone we
find local but notable instances.
Master Christopher Burrough' describes on the western side of the
Volga
"
name Oueak, and
a very fine stone castle, called by the
adioyning to the same a Towne called by the Riisses, Sodom,
* which was swallowed into the earth by the iustice of God,
* *
Again
wickednesse of the people."
for the
:
although as a rule
Christianity has steadily opposed pathologic love both in writing
and preaching, there have been remarkable exceptions.
Perhaps
the most curious idea was that of certain medical writers in the
middle
ages
*'
:
Usus
amplexus
et
salutaris medicina " (Tardicu).
infamous
the
book
Dc
Benevento, "
della
refers
sodomy might be
Be
demand."
done as they
it
IMantovano.
the proverb "
But
boirc."
Aux
in
In our
l^urchas
Paris
of
the report
the
tlian
d'
the
petition
Fa^da Venus of
history
in
the
to
for
winter,
a
curious
and quotes
R, peu embrasser et bien
famous Jesuit epitaph Ci-git un
capitals,
London, Berlin and Paris
Jesuite, etc.
for instance,
243.
literal
Li<;cv.x,
Santa Lucia that
di
the case of a celibate priesthood such scandals are
modern
iii.
summer
mois qui n'ont pas
inevitable: witness the
For a
iv ") to
underwritten
Hence
Baylc rejects
reason, vcnery being colder in
'
")
as " Capitolo
months per annum, June
lawful during three
and that the Cardinal had
;
Battista
^
known
(under " Sixte
had presented a request to the Cardinal
"
Vayer
Dominican Order, which systematically decried Le Vice,
that the
August
"
Casa, Archbishop
laudibus Sodomia;,"^ vulgarly
The same writer
del Forno."
tempcratus,
Bayle notices (under
Giovanni
of
bene
pueri,
translation see
tSSo.
I"""
Serie de la Curioiite Litteraire et
Bihliographique,
:
A if
248
wa
Laylah
Laylah.
For many years,
the Vice seems subject to periodical outbreaks.
also,
England sent her pederasts
whence originated the term
and especially
to Italy,
" II
Inglese."
vizio
It
Naples
to
would be
invidious to detail the scandals which of late years have startled
the public
in
London and Dublin
:
for these the curious
will
Berlin, despite her strong flavour of
consult the police reports.
Phariseeism, Puritanism and Chauvinism in religion, manners and
morals,
not a whit better than her neighbours.
is
many
well-known authority on the subject, adduces
cases especially
Amongst
his
Dr. Caspar,^ a
interesting
an old Count Cajus and his six accomplices.
many
correspondents one suggested to him that not
only Plato and Julius Caesar but also Winckelmann and Platen
belonged to the Society; and he had found
it
flourishing in Palermo,
name
the Louvre, the Scottish Highlands and St. Petersburg, to
Frederick the Great
only a few places.
these
words to
his
"
nephew,
is
ij)
said to have
addressed
mon
Je puis vous assurer, par
experience personclle, que ce plaisir est peu agreablc a cultiver."
This suggests the popular anecdote of Voltaire and the English-
man who
agreed upon an
A few
satisfactory.
"
days afterwards the
of Ferncy that he had tried
tion, "
Once a philosphcr
of the kind in
experience " and found
Germany
is
:
it
latter
it
far
from
informed the Sage
again and provoked the exclama-
twice a sodomite
!
"
The
a society at Frankfort and
last
revival
its
neighbour-
I
suppose, to
hood, self-styled Lcs Cravates Noires in opposition,
Les Cravates Blanches of A. Bclot.
Paris
by no means more depraved than Berlin and London
is
but, whilst the latter hushes
hence we see a more copious account of
it
submitted to the public.
For France of the xviith century consult the "llistoire dc
Prostitution
'
known works
liisbesl
Bciiin, 1S60
chez tons
;
and
les
arc (i)
;
up the scandal, Frenchmen do not
Peuples du Monde," and
Praktischcs
Handbuch
(2) Klinisclio Xovcllen zur gerechtlichcn
"
dfr Gerechilichen
Medccm,
la
La France
Medecin,
Bcilin, 1863.
—
Tertninal Essay.
devenue Italienne," a
249
" L'Histoire
which generally follows
treatise
The
A.moureuse des Gaules " by Bussy, Comtc de Rabutin.'
head-quarters of male prostitution were then in the
Champ
the xviiith century, " quand
emporary recrudescence
Flory,
Veuves
in the
" veuve
" in
Champs
In
Voltaire
folle," as
and, after the death of Pidauzet de
;
*'
Apologie de
L'Espion Anglais.
in
i>.,
Pech^ philosophique," there was a
IMairobert (March, 1779), his
was published
Francais a tete
Ic
"
the term
invented
sings,
Champ
de Flore, the privileged rendezvous of low courtesans.
Elysees had a
the language of
In those days the
" fief
Sodom
"
Sccte Anandryne
la
AUee des
"
Ebugors
reserve des
being the maitresse en
-
titre,
the favourite youth.
At
moment
the decisive
of monarchical
decomposition Mira-
beau' declares that pederasty was reglemcntee and adds,
des peclerastes,
III. (the
French Heliogabalus), sous
le
mutucllement
les
se provoquaient
des progres considerables.
The same author
'
Le gout
quoique moins en vogue que du temps de Henri
"*
On
sous
sait
r^gne desquel
hommcs
Ics
portiqucs du Louvre,
que cctte
ville
(Paris) est
"
printed another imitation of Pctronlus Arbiter, the
story of Thcophile Viand.
His cousin, the Sevigne, highly approved of
fait
un
Larissa
"
See Bayle's
it.
objections to Rabutin's delicacy and excuses for Petronius' grossness in his " Eclaircisse-
ment
sur Ics obscenites"
The
-
Boulgrin
"indorser,"
Inigiardo
b.(
—
'.vever,
derived
liar.
(Appendicc au Dictionnairc Antique).
Rabelais,
of
from
which
Uiquhart
the Bulgarus or
Bougre and Bougrcrie date
but think that the
trivial
renders
Bulgarian,
from the
(Liltre)
ftaly
xiiith century.
cannot
A
grand Fete
in
H. and Dame Katherine de Medicis (June i6, 1564)
pageant, three hundred men (including fifty " Bugres '' or Tupis)
with parroquets and other birds and beasts of the newly explored regions.
is
I
term
the entrance of Henri
showed, as part of the
sion
the
in the
Antartiquc and several of these savages found their way to Europe.
Rouen on
an
Boulgre,
for
to
with when the manners
were stmlied by Huguenot refugees in La France
term gained strength
of the Bugres or indigenous Brazilians
Ingle
who gave
given in -the four-folding
woodcut "
I'igure des Brcsilicns
"
in
The
proces-
Jean de Prcsi's
Edition of 155'!.
*
Erotika Biblion chapt. Kadesch (pp. 93
ct seq.)
Edition de Pruxclles with notes by
the Chev.dier P. Piernigues of Bordeaux, before noticed.
'
Called
Palnierston.
Cb'-vaiiers
de
Paille because
the
sign
was a btraw
in
the
mouth, a
la
Alf Laylah wa
250
chef-d'oeuvre de police
Laylah.
en consequence,
;
il
y a des lieux publics
Les jeunes gens qui se destinent a
autorisds k
cet effet.
sion, sont
soigneusement enclasses
On
taires s'^tendent jusques-la.
;
les
la profes-
car les syst^mes r^glemen-
examine
ceux qui peuvent
;
€tre agents et patients, qui sont beaux, vermeils, bien
faits,
poteles,
sont r^serv^s pour les grands seigneurs, ou se font payer tr^s-cher
par
les
^veques et
les
ou en termes de
testicules,
et resolvent,
parceque
Ceux
les
forment
la
qui sont priv^s de leurs
(car notre langue est plus chaste
I'art
qui nos mceurs), qui n'ont pas
nent
Ceux
financiers.
\q
poids du tisserand, mais qui don-
seconde classe
fem.mes en usent tandis
ils
;
sont encore chers,
aux hommes.
qu'ils servent
qui ne sont plus susceptibles d'^rection tant
sont uses,
ils
quoiqu'ils aient tous ces organes n^cessaires au plaisir, s'inscrivent
commQ patiefis purs
et
y
composent
la troisieme classe
qui preside a ces plaisirs, v^rifie leur impuissance.
on
les place tout
deux
caressent
les
filles
nus sur un matelas ouvertpar
la
Pour cet
de leur mieux, pendant qu'une
Apres un quart d'heure de
effet,
moiti^ inf^rieure
sieme frappe doucement avec des orties naissantes
desirs veneriens.
mais celle
:
cet essai,
le
;
troi-
si6ge des
on leur intro-
duit dans I'anus un poivre long rouge qui cause une irritation con-
siderable
de
;
on pose sur
moutarde
la
Ceux
les
(fchauboulures produites par les orties,
de Caudebec,
fine
et
Ton passe
tion, servent
The
comme
had
its
Restoration and the Empire
mot dc
passe,
was
Thomas des Louvre and
;
Two
made
for the female,
'
I
in
the
opened
at
the police more vigilant
The
favourite club, which
Rue Doyenne,
old
quarter St.
the house was a hotel of the xviitli century.
street-doors, on the right for the
4 p.m.
have noticed that the eunuch
reason.
gland au camphre.
patiens a un tiers de paie sculcmcnt.^
matters of politics than of morals.
in
le
qui rdsistent a ces epreuves et ne donnent aucun signe d'erec-
in
in
male gynasceum and the
winter and 8 p.m.
in
left
summer.
Sind was as meanly paid and have given the
Terminal Essay
A
decoy-lad, charmingly dressed
251
haunches and small waist, promenaded outside
till
1826 when the police put
Under Louis
down
clothes, with big
women's
in
;
and
this
continued
the house.
had
Philippe, the conquest of Algiers
He
according to the Marquis dc Boissy.
evil
results,
complained without
ambages of moeurs Arabes in French regiments, and declared that
the result of the African
wars was an ^ffrayable d^bordemcnt
p^derastique, even as the v^role resulted from the Italian cam-
paigns of that age of passion, the xvith century.
From the
military
the fldau spread to civilian society and the Vice took such expansion and intensity that
in cities
and
it
large towns
may
;
be said to have been democratised
at least so
des Agissements des Pcderastcs.
we gather from
A
the Dossier
general gathering of
*'
La
Sainte Congregation des glorieux Pcdcrastes" was held in the old
Petite
Rue des Marais where,
after the
under pretext of making water.
theatre,
many
They ranged themselves along
the walls of a vast garden and exposed their podices
richards and nobles
came with
full
:
bourgeois,
which
purses, touched the part
most attracted them and were duly followed by
it.
At
des Veuves the crowd was dangerous from 7 to 8 p.m.
man
resorted
or ronde dc nuit dared venture in
it
;
:
the Alice
no police-
cords were stretched
from tree to tree and armed guards drove away strangers amongst
whom, they
say,
was once Victor Hugo.
This nuisance was at
length suppressed by the municipal administration.
The Empire
did not improve morals.
la
one hundred and
men
fifty
Balls of sodomites were
IMadcieine wlicrc, on Jan.
held at No. 8 Place dc
met,
all
so well
dressed as
that even the landlord did not recognise them.
some
2, '64,
There was
women
also a
club for sotadic debauchery called the Cent Gardes and the Dragons
de l'Imp{5ratrice.'
'
Tiiey copied the imperial toilette and kept
Centuria Librorum Absconditorum (by Piianus Fraxi) 4(0, p.
Privately printed, mdccclxxix.
Ix.
it
in
and 593. London.
Alf Laylah wa Laylah.
252
the general wardrobe
The
used carnally.
hence "
:
faire I'lmp^ratrice "
who
Veuves, was discovered by the Procureur-Gdndral
all
the
names
dignitaries, the
des
registered
and
but, as these belonged to not a few senators
;
Emperor wisely quashed proceedings.
was broken up on July
16, '64.
be
to
the Ailed
a splendid hotel in
site,
meant
The
club
During the same year La Petite
Revue, edited by M. Loredan Larchy, son of the General, printed
an
" Les 6chappds de
article,
M. Castagnary
Sodome "
to the Progr^s
it
:
discusses the letter of
de Lyons and declares that the
Vice had been adopted by plusieurs corps de troupes.
latest
For
its
developments as regards the chajitage of the tantes (pathics),
the reader will consult the last issues of Dr. Tardieu's well-known
He
ifctudes.^
declares that
and that the Vice
is
the servant-class
is
most infected
commonest between the ages of
;
and
fifteen
twenty-five.
The pederasty
of
The Nights may
The
three categories.
first
practical joke of masterful
is
the funny form, as the unseemly
Queen Budiir
the not lesshardi jest of the slave-princess
The second
'
A friend
in
is
learned in these matters supplies
being affected by so
some
of the worst
;
(vol.
many
at
me
300-306) and
iii.
Zumurrud
the errimmest and most earnest
Those who marvel
pederasts.
be distributed into
briefly
(vol. iv. 226).
ohase of the
with the following
list
of famous
the wide diffusion of such erotic perversion,
celebiities, will bear in
mind
that the greatest
and
Alexander of Macedon, Julius Coesar and Napoleon Buonaparte
held themselves high above the moral law which obliges common-place humanity.
three are charged with the Vice.
Frederick
iii.
ii.
Of Kings wc have Henri
of Prussia, Peter the Great, William
of Parma.
We
Theodorus Beza,
find also
LuUy
Conde, Marquis de
(the
Shakespeare
(i.,
ii.
Louis
xiii.
and
All
xviii.,
ii.
and
Francois Hugo) and Moli^re,
Composer), D'.\ssoucy, Count Zintzcndorff, the Grand
Villette, Pierre
Henne
iii.,
of Holland and Charles
xv., Edit
Louis Farncse,
Due de
Count D'Avaray, Saint Megrin, D'Epernon, Admiral de
Rochfort S. Louis,
its
men have been
(the Spiritualist),
la
De Soleinne,
La Roche-Pouchin
la \'alliere,
Susse,
Comte Horace de
Viel Castel,
Lerminin,
Fievee, Theodore Leclerc, Archi-Chancellier Cambac^res, Marquis de Custine, Sainte-
Beuve and Count D'Orsay.
For others
refer to the three
volumes of Pisanus Fraxi
;
Index Librorum Prohibitorum (London, 1877), Centuria Librorum Absconditorum M cfore
alluded
to)
the names.
and Catena Librorum Tacendorum, London, 1885.
The
indices will supply
Terminal Essay.
Abu Nowas
perversion, for instance where
youths
253
debauches the three
^
64-69); whilst in the third form
(vol. V.
learnedly discussed, to be severely blamed, by the
Woman
Reverend
To
Many
my
readers will regret the absence from
man and
author when leaving a
nothing shall be here related
are conformable neither to
by
Nor have we
them
Herein
is
no offence offered
to the loose
But these are not oriental ideas and we
and, as Bacon assures us the mixture of a
and horrible vice placed
in
He
him.
find
turpia," together with
so the Arab enjoys the startling and
virtue
esteem as
slight
in
Palmerin of England
less respect for
must e'en take the Eastern as we
non sunt
"
still
me
lie
doth add to pleasure,
lively contrast of
extreme
juxtaposition.
of offensive matter
the proportion
that
holds
Mundis omnia munda";
Those who have read through these ten volumes
with
And
and suchlike things which
by wanton speeches, or encouragement
lascivious matter."
" Naturalia
" whose
good conscience nor nature, man ought
after a risqu^ scene declares, "
to the wise
;
together says, "
a maid
in reason lightly to pass over, holding
who
The Nights
"Amadis do Gaul
for these
;
des
subject, the ^claircissement
of that modesty which distinguishes
they deserve."
Shaykhah or
(vol. v. 154).
conclude this part of
obsc^nites.
wisely and
is
it
small ratio to the mass of the work.
will
agree
bears a very
In an age saturated with
cant and h\-pocrisy, here and there a venal pen will mourn over
the " Pornography " of
The
Nights, dwell upon the " Ethics of
Dirt" and the "Garbage of the ]^rothcl;" and
"wanton dissemination
'
Of
this peculiar
whose works
character Ihn IvhiHikan remarks
clearly contrarieil
himself being an atheist
more
(!)
salacious
was greedier than
passionate for
;
a
dog
women
;
their
Aha
than a lie-goat
and
character.
Alu
(ii.
>hjhanur.e'.l
Alu'i
lament the
43},
il)n
Nowas hymned
than a baboon."
Tlure
'•
Ila/ini
This
|'iiH>
im;-' .!i.nce.
praiscl
sclf-
\\cic f ur
al-Atahivah wrote
ihikayma'-- ver^e^ prove-l his
;
will
of ancient and filthy fiction."
\e'.
C'lntei.imLnt,
j
n
!v
[tni-.
lie
\et
w.^i
h.e
the joys of bu,!oni\', }el he wa^ nn^rc
-A^f Laylah
254
constituted Censor
and
Virgil,
morum
wa
reads Aristophanes and Plato, Horace
perhaps even Martial and Petronius, because " veiled
Latin^ loqui
;
but he
is
scandalised at
he allows men
"
stumbling-blocks
lais
;
classics,
with which boys* and youths'
Lastly,
why
at schools
republished
of works which are
list
a word of
without
its
allusions to
to carnal copulation
human
the pudenda
ordure and
sodomy and
not do, the whited sepulchre
!
To
bestiality
But
?
the interested
Edinburgh Review (No, 335 of July, 1886),
short-lived,
I
show
and venom evaporates.
to such
:
—
he
this
my
^lies
warmest
are one-
It appears to
^
will
of the
critic
return
I
thanks for his direct and deliberate falsehoods
when
,
and impudent whoredom, to adultery and
fornication, to onanism,
that
protest.
does not this inconsistent puritan purge the Old
Testament of
legged and
and
and Chaucer, Shakespeare and Rabe-
Burton, Sterne, Swift and a long
yearly reprinted and
much
be consistent he must begin
minds and memories are soaked and saturated
colleges, but also Boccaccio
in
To
important in plain English.
by bowdlerising not only the
;
language
the decent obscurity of a learned
iess
Laylah.
me
men, so " respectable " and so impure,
a landscape of magnificent prospects whose vistas are adorned
with every charm of nature and
at a
'
A
little
art,
they point their unclean noses
heap of muck here and there lying
virulently
in
and unjustly abusive critique never yet injured
a field-corner.
its
object
:
generally the greatest favour an author's unfriends can bestow upon him.
in a popular
Review books which Lave been printed and not published
ance with the established courtesies of literature.
write a paper " The Reviewer Reviewed " which
At
will,
the end of
is
in fact
But
it
is
to notice
hardly in accord-
my work
I
propose to
amongst other things, explain the
motif of the writer of the critique and the editor of the Edinburgh.