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The wisest statesmen of Great Britain, since the civil strife in Canada in 1837, have fully recognized that the permanent well-being of the Empire is best conserved by promoting the education of the peoples of the British Dominions and possessions in the exercise of the privileges of constitutional self-. government and selfrestrained enjoyment of civil liberty.

Pending Developments in the Constitution of the British Empire 1929

I have known, I am inclined to say that if we can enable an invert to be healthy, selfrestrained and selfrespecting, we have often done better than to convert him into the mere feeble simulacrum of a normal man.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899