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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 43, 16 March 1909, Page 3

PANIC AND PAIN Thi: aged Professor of Criminology, Cosure Lombroso, writing ) like ililton, with the liclp of his daughter, Sigiiorina l'aolii Louibroso, contributes a long article to a l'aris newspaper on "The State of Jliud During the Italian Catastrophe." Professor Lombroso begins by saying that the catastrophe allowed one to sound the very depths of the human soul. "I saw the last judgment," said one, "Hie end of the world. I am sure that the end of the world must come about ill. this way. In the pitch-black night I saw houses tremble, shake, and subside, and abysses open in the earth ; ami endless shrieks and cries ; 1 thought it was the reign of death, as I pictured it in nightmares. L mi longer felt alive. I thought myself dead. 1 thought, that my consciousness was the consciousness that must follow death."

"No oho, oven though seriously wounded, speaks of physical suffering."' .Professor Lomliroso remarks : —"" Tin? panic, the terror took possession of their sense* and paralysed all sense of pain. Men who had an arm broken ran miles without knowing it : a woman whose eye was so badlv hurt that it had to lie removed declares that she felt nothing. With hare feet, elad with only a shirt, the first thought of the survivors was to fly, and they set off without thought or reflection, without knowing why they ran. There was a striking episode ol collective mutism. At the time of the , .itastrophe three hundred workpeople were about to enter a factory. They staved outside, and thus were saved, but their amazement was so great that when the director of the factory eaiicii out their names scarcely one answered ; their own names hf.it slipped their recollection.

Professor f.omliroso also gives some remarkable instances tn which the instinct of self-observation showed itself verv strongly. Women and children remained two days sitting on window | sills on tlie third and fourth Hours. Tins ] reminds I'rol'cssor bomliroso of Ihc remark often made by Alpine climbers : that the instinct of self-preservation always dominates any tendency to dizziness.' I'rofessor Lombroso goes on to «ho\v that children resisted terror and pain better than adults. This, he says. was probably due not only to their remarkable power for resisting suffocation, but also to their unconsciousness of danger, and the sensatiun of fear which niu-'t certainly have killed the iimjorily "f those who died alter being extricated.

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