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Excerpt from Walt Whitman's Anomaly The present writer - a medical man - changed one day to take up Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, and to open it at the Calamus poems. Almost immediately the strong similarity in sentiment to that of confessions of homosexual subjects recorded in text-books on the human sex-instinct became astonishingly evident; so evident, indeed, that it seemed fifty chances to one the thing must have been noticed before. However, for some time search proved negative. A psychopathical criticism was outside the compass of Whitman's contemporaries, because at that time scientific study of sex practically did not exist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.