The secret of human power / by Haydn Brown.

  • Brown, Haydn, 1864-1936.
Date:
[1915]
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Credit: The secret of human power / by Haydn Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    testations ; there is a power opposing— which power is correcting ancl punishing. Herr Witting, President of the National Bank of Germany, has declared that “ Eng¬ land, and England alone, brought on this criminal war, out of greed and out of envy, in order to crush Germany.” In such clearly expressed vituperations we may again study the invert’s mind at work. His remark, “ God, how we hate England and the Eng¬ lish,” reminds one of the morphiomaniac’s own artful and ready condemnation of morphia-taking, should any risk arise of his vice being discovered : in one such instance, a clever scientist, feeling somewhat insecure, wrote an essay upon the evils of drugging, asking the present writer’s opinion on it, in order to disarm a suspicion that was closing round him. After a course of mental treat¬ ment, perhaps, Herr Witting may one day be able to soliloquize in introspective closeted moments, “ God, how England ought to hate us,” or “ Heavens, how we may well wish wc were like those British whom we have so unjustly scorned and spurned in our dis¬ ordered minds.”
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