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everyday producers of shock are pain, fright and wounds. The 

 ins oversecrete to encounter the enemy, and 

 ■ is a period of rest and recuperation. Man, how 

 with the growth of his imagination and the fa ED number 



and density of his surrounding herd, has become the subji 

 imulation. In the past, this was balanced b 

 almost universal dominance of some religious belief, as an effec- 

 tive opiate. Concepts like Fate, Predestination, an all-guiding 

 and all-wise Providence, relieved and shielded the adrenals, and 

 acted as valuable adjuvants for the preservation of normality. 



The nineteenth century witnessed the birth and expansion of 

 a great number of new stimulant reagents, the disc 

 physics and chemistry, which, with the climax of the World War 

 of 1914-1918, have made for a more or less complete deliquescence 

 of accepted religion. For the great majority there was no faith 

 to take its place. War, pre-war, and post-war shocks have con- 

 tinued with their incessant pound ing u pon the reserves of energy. 

 Under these conditions the adrenaljpersonalities are bound to 

 s uffer . The other endocrine types suffer, too, but quite differ- 

 ently. 



Today, anti-adrenal, anti-religious ideas are epidemic. Of 

 these, first prize belongs to a cult of egotism fathered by the 

 Napoleonic Idea, consciously assertive and self-conscious in Mai 

 Stirner's "The Ego and His Own," which engender* rm of 



imitators and plagiarists. Human beings are all incorrigible 

 egoists more or less, furtive or frank. But social and reli 

 codes curbed the most narcissistic of kings and conquerors. Be- 

 fore Napoleon, all of them vowed allegiance and expressed sob- 

 ion to some sort of deity, cot : of the Lord 

 in their hearts. But the ideas of Napoleon flouted all that. The 

 ipulous predatory who put effectual scheming for the 

 self plainly above every other consideration and rode rougfa 



aU his fellows appealed powerfully to the latent animality 



of the adrenal types. T 



capital and labor of themselves as classes fiercely opposed for- 

 ever in the policy of cut-thn is cut-throat. The labor 

 and the commercial companies and cor] 



S like 



for himself and 

 and the 

 Facte" of phrasei of the nineteenth oen- 



tury that assisted. Finally o rwmiaa revelation <-f 



