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Priests and medical men are in a fashion educated 

 to it, and we should all feel some degree of it im- 

 perative if we were conscious of our work as an 

 obligatory service to the state. We should be 

 owned, as soldiers are by the army, and our pride 

 would rise accordingly. We could be poor, then, 

 without humiliation, as army officers now are. 

 The only thing needed henceforth is to inflame the 

 civic temper as past history has inflamed the mili- 

 tary temper." 



It is ten years since James wrote these words, 

 and during those years much has happened to make 

 this advice even more imperative. Neither the vic- 

 torious Peace of Versailles, nor yet the Washington 

 Conference for the Limitation of Armaments, holds 

 out immediate relief from military dominance. 

 One wonders what kind of calamity the gods can 

 send us so that we may be awakened before the 

 Great Flood sweeps us forever from off this globe. 



Dr. Crile's researches. Dr. Crile, the famous 

 Cleveland surgeon, has advanced a theory regarding 

 shock and exhaustion which deserves treatment in 

 this chapter for two reasons: first, because in his 

 theory the adrenals play an active part; and sec- 

 ondly because of the success he has had in the clini- 

 cal application of his theory. 



Shock of which the varieties of shell-shock de- 

 scribed during the late war are types is character- 

 ized by a loss, to a large extent, of deliberate ac- 



