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War Psychology: English and German

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Henry Maudsley
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[The following article was sent to the Editors so far back as the autumn of 1916. Exception was taken by the Censor to certain passages, and as it was felt that it was preferable that it should be published in its entirety or not at all, its publication was withheld in the hope that the objections would eventually be withdrawn. This has now been done, and the Editors are glad to be in a position to present the article as it came from the pen of Dr. Maudsley, and without any mutilation.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 65 , Issue 269 , April 1919 , pp. 65 - 87
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1919 

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References

(1) Le cœur a des raisons que la raison ne connait pas.—PASCAL.Google Scholar

—(2) Le véritable auteur d'une guerre n'est pas celui qui la déclarem, ais celui qui la rend nécessaire.—MONTESQUIEU.Google Scholar

—(3) The Vienna Arbeiter Zeitung calls attention to a sermon delivered at Hamburg by an evangelical pastor named Ebert. It contains passages like the following : “When it is a question of the Judgment of God, God's word knows nothing of mercy … God has put the sword of Justice into our hand … God has placed in our hands all means to defeat the enemy … God has given us the most brilliant leader of our days. ” Captain Valentiner, son of the Dean Of Sonnenburgh Cathedral and the reported officer in command of the German submarine which sank the “Lusitania,” has been decorated with a number of orders since the deed, including the first-class order of the Iron Cross and the Hohenzollern House Order with swords, a special distinction in the personal gift of the Emperor.Google Scholar

—(4) Some of them belonging to what Burke describes as “the profane herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians who, so far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of Empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in it.”Google Scholar

—(5) The following quotation is from an article by Lord Cromer in The Spectator (August 19th, 1916) : “Mr. Fortescue and other historians have drawn attention to the fact that the European chaos produced by the French Revolution was in some measure due to the abundance of half-witted or incapable Sovereigns who, during the eighteenth century, governed their respective countries. The Emperor Paul of Russia was a madman. King Christian VII of Denmark was subject to inter-mittent attacks of dementia, as also was George III of England. Queen Marie of Portugal and Gustavus IV of Sweden were both lunatics. Charles IV of Spain and his brother, Ferdinand of Naples, were half-witted. Louis XVI of France, Victor Amadeusof Sardinia, Francis of Austria, and Frederick William of Prussia, though not of unsound mind, were all wholly unfit to occupy with advantage to their countries the exalted positions which they held.”Google Scholar

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