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Henry Havelock Ellis was an English physician, eugenicist, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He co-wrote the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and inclinations, as well as on transgender psychology. He developed the notions of narcissism and autoeroticism, later adopted by psychoanalysis.

Ellis was among the pioneering investigators of psychedelic drugs and the author of one of the first written reports to the public about an experience with mescaline, which he conducted on himself in 1896. He supported eugenics and served as one of 16 vice-presidents of the Eugenics Society from 1909 to 1912. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. February 1859 – 8. July 1939  •  Other names Гевлок Елліс
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H. Havelock Ellis Quotes about life

“The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life.”

H. Havelock Ellis

The New Spirit (1890)

“Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.”

H. Havelock Ellis

Source: The Dance of Life http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300671.txt (1923), Ch. 2

“The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities…A life is beautiful and ideal, or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.”

H. Havelock Ellis

Source: Little Essays of Love and Virtue http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15687/15687-h/15687-h.htm (1922), Ch. 1

H. Havelock Ellis Quotes about men

“If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.”

H. Havelock Ellis

The Task of Social Hygiene, ch. 1 (1912)

“To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.”

H. Havelock Ellis

Introduction to Huysman's A Rebours (Against the Grain) (1884)

“The text of the Bible is but a feeble symbol of the Revelation held in the text of Men and Women.”

H. Havelock Ellis

Impressions and Comments http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8ells10.txt (1914)

“The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.”

H. Havelock Ellis

Source: Little Essays of Love and Virtue http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15687/15687-h/15687-h.htm (1922), Ch. 7

H. Havelock Ellis Quotes

“What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.”

H. Havelock Ellis

Source: The Dance of Life http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300671.txt (1923), Ch. 6

“The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.”

H. Havelock Ellis

Source: The Dance of Life http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300671.txt (1923), Ch. 2

“Homosexual' is a barbarously hybrid word, and I claim no responsibility for it.”

H. Havelock Ellis

Studies in Psychology (1897)

“Every artist writes his own autobiography.”

H. Havelock Ellis

The New Spirit

“"Charm"—which means the power to effect work without employing brute force—is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.”

H. Havelock Ellis

The Task of Social Hygiene, ch. 3 HTTP://BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM/books?id=nAoAAAAAYAAJ&q=%22charm+which+means+the+power+to+effect+work+without+employing+brute+force+is+indispensable+to+women+charm+is+a+woman%27s+strength+just+as+strength+is+a+man%27s+charm%22&pg=PA81#v=onepage

“Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.”

H. Havelock Ellis

Source: The Dance of Life http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300671.txt (1923), Ch. 3

“The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product.”

H. Havelock Ellis

Source: Little Essays of Love and Virtue http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15687/15687-h/15687-h.htm (1922), Ch. 3

“The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.”

H. Havelock Ellis

Source: The Dance of Life http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300671.txt (1923), Ch. 3

“There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.”

H. Havelock Ellis

The Task of Social Hygiene, ch. 10

“The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago…had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.”

H. Havelock Ellis

Source: The Dance of Life http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300671.txt (1923), Ch. 7

“One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.”

H. Havelock Ellis

Source: Little Essays of Love and Virtue http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15687/15687-h/15687-h.htm (1922), Ch. 1

“All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.”

H. Havelock Ellis

Source: Little Essays of Love and Virtue http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15687/15687-h/15687-h.htm (1922), Ch. 7

“The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.”

H. Havelock Ellis

Source: The Dance of Life http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300671.txt (1923), Ch. 3

“In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.”

H. Havelock Ellis

Source: The Dance of Life http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300671.txt (1923), Ch. 3

“It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.”

H. Havelock Ellis

Impressions and Comments http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8ells10.txt (1914)

“The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.”

H. Havelock Ellis

Source: The Dance of Life http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300671.txt (1923), Ch. 5

“A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.”

H. Havelock Ellis

Source: The Dance of Life http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300671.txt (1923), Ch. 5

“Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on the pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could but have confirmed the diagnosis.”

H. Havelock Ellis

Impressions and Comments, series 3

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