This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...and morons, we then have a scientific basis for right judgment in the matter. Many critics when seeking a scientific basis for judgment, have been in sad straits up to the beginning of the present century. During the last decade in the presence of PostImpressionism, they have been almost in despair. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...and morons, we then have a scientific basis for right judgment in the matter. Many critics when seeking a scientific basis for judgment, have been in sad straits up to the beginning of the present century. During the last decade in the presence of PostImpressionism, they have been almost in despair. The time has now arrived for taking unrecognized expression to the authorities in psychology and bacteriology forthwith, without any delay. It will clear the brain and allow us to escape from the effects of Post-Impressionist decomposition of painting, music and literature. The public does not yet realize that a certain proportion of people with talent present classifiable clinical psychoses. The question why so many men in prison become insane has very recently been reduced to a matter of knowledge that they were suffering from psychoses before becoming prisoners. They were really irresponsible for their crimes. Their true condition was not realized until they were placed under close analytical observation. It is now time to make a similar analytical observation of the futurists. Is the world benefited on the whole when a morbid mind is displayed in the transcendental genius of a Napoleon? It is true that we have the Napoleonic Code with Justinian color, and that constitutional government was jarred hastily into European states, but at what fearful cost! Yet that in itself may have been nature's plan. Would civilization have extended just as far, more slowly and better, without Napoleon? That is the question we must ask. He had no burning desire to extend civilization for civilization's sake, but only as it meant power to himself. Had Napoleon been alone as a morbid ruler in his time we might answer the question more easily, but other nations...
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