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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    Emperor, or no, may be questioned, but pan¬ perversion was there in front of him, and was chosen for its fascinating lack of true principle. A study of the German mind would be wanting that failed to remark pan-perver¬ sion and inversion as exhibited in literature and art. Decadence may be discerned quite clearly in German drama, music, and even painting. It must be scientifically interest¬ ing for uncontaminated psychologists of other countries to note, in either their personal or literary studies, evidences of ominous abnormality and degeneracy ; knowing as the sound scientist does how surely pervert sexual conception contributes incurable impetus to general vicious encircle¬ ment, events of “ The Day ” and afterwards provide indeed a harvest for students of human disorder. A resolute, imperious sway had given rise to the most unscrupulous, far-reaching, and ramifying system of collecting information that has ever been known. Megalomania, indeed, brings a variety of arcs to the vicious circle. But an over-enthusiasm has made
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