FIVE STAGES OF GERMAN MADNESS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2478, 3 June 1915, Page 5

FIVE STAGES OF GERMAN MADNESS

ENDING IN am DEVOLUTION.

(Rec. June 2, 8.15 p.m.)

London, June 2. Dr. Charles Sarolea, tho Belgian publicist, lecturing in America, said that before the Allies could obtain a victory over the Germans not only their military machino had to be overcome, but the tremendous moral and driving force of fanaticism behind tliat machine. Ho had como to the conclusion that tho whole of tile German people were politically insane, mid that their country was a vast lunatic asvlum. "This is not metaphor or epigram,,"Bald Dr. Sarolea, "but a medical fact. It began with a vicious pride expressed in the delirium of their own greatness, and the spread of the doctrine that her people were a super-race. The next stago came when tho Germaus thought that Britain was conspiring against them. That brought delusion and persecution. In the third stage, the delirium of violence is now seen in its most horriblo form, and there are already signs of the fourth stage—depression and melancholia.

"Tho last stage will ho one of euicida! mania. After turning.her impudenr rage against civilisation, Germany before many months will turn against herself, and the end will be a civil revolution and internecine strife.'' j