VAST LUNATIC ASYLUM.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13701, 3 June 1915, Page 3

VAST LUNATIC ASYLUM.

BELGIAN'S OPINION OP GERMANS} LONDON, June 2. I)r Cliarles Sarolea. the Belgian, pub- ' Heist, lecturing m America, said that before the Allies obtain victory they, have not only a military machine to overcome, but the tremendous moral and driving force of fanaticism behind the machine. He had, come to the conclusion that the whole of the German people were politically insane and that the country was a vast lunate asylum. This was not metaphor or epigram, but a medical fact. | The German insanity began with a vicious pride expressed m" delirium of their own greatness, and spread, to the doctrine that her people were a superrace. The next stage was when the Germans thought Britain conspiring against them. That brought the delusion of persecution. The third stage of delirium of violence was now seen m iLs most horrible form, and there were already signs of the fourth stage of depression and melancholia. The last stage would be suicidal mania. After turning her impudent rage against civilisation, before many months Germany would turn against herself and the end. would be civil revolution and internecine strife. " !