THE INTERNATIONAL SUICIDE CLUB
"If the sovereign States of the world are studied one by one it is obvious that each is intent on self -preservation. But if we view them collectively it would seem that some ' power not themselves ' is goading them on -to self-destruction. The tendency of the whole seqms to be in opposition to the tendencies of the parts, as though a Suicide Club were to be comppsed of members §ach determined to preserve his own life at all costs. In correspondence to this we should observe, on studying their mentality, that each of them desires to live in peace, while the totality seems afElicted with a war-complex whioh overpowers their individual desires for peace and drives them continually in the direction of war. ' Sauve qui peut ' is the principle on which each is acting; the result in the total is a general rush down a steep place into the sea — in other words, thfe race for armaments. Individually they appear to be sane, but colleotively mad." — Dr. E. P. Jacks.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 146, 8 July 1937, Page 4
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174THE INTERNATIONAL SUICIDE CLUB Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 146, 8 July 1937, Page 4
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