"MADNESS" OF THE KAISER.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 211, 4 September 1915, Page 13

"MADNESS" OF THE KAISER.

AMERICAN DOCTOR'S ANALYSIS OF HIS ECCENTRICITIES. "When a madman directs the conduct of war end only in defeat." In these wortU Dr. MaLane Hamilton concludes an article in the "North American Review" on "The Kaiser's Psychosis," in which he considers the possible madness of the Kaiser. He pronounces no positivo decision, but he adduces some striking reasons for believing that the Kaiser is tainted with insanity, to which there was some hereditary predisposition. "His childhood and youth were characterised by peculiarities of conduct tliat may safely be said to be psychopathic, while his early manhood was punctuated with frequent instances of decidedly insane behaviour, which have eince become more conspicuous and c""tinuous." With regan. -o the Kaiser's belief in the Almighty as hia ally, Dr. Hamilton observes that though this is not an uncommon symptom in some early forms of dementia, it is in part a familiar Teutonic idea. Frederick William IV. had some such idea, but lie was unquestionably insane. "_i.i of us who see much of mental disease recognise the tendency of certain 'desequilibres' to ally themselves with God. He enters into their delusions, and their Impulsive and other murderous acts often spring from such alleged direction." Dr. Hamilton quotes an extraordinary proclamation issued >to the Poles last October, in which the Kaiser claimed that the miraculous ringing of a bell at the Swiatogarsky Monastery had been a signal to him "to wage war with Rue-»ia-and leatorp Poland her saint a."!