[337] Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia sexualis, p. 139. The author here cites all the features in question as characteristic of the first stage of general paralysis: ‘Libidinous talk, unconstraint in intercourse with the opposite sex, plans of marriage.’
[338] Rosmersholm, p. 23:
Rebecca (to Brendel). You should apply to Peter Mortensgaard.
Brendel. Pardon, Madame—what sort of an idiot is he?
See the flat travesty in An Enemy of the People (Act IV.) of the forum scene in Shakespeare’s Julius Cæsar, and the characterization of the ‘crowd,’ in Brand (Act V.).
[339] Herbert Spencer, The Man versus the State, 1884, p. 78.
[340] In the German text, ‘only of themselves and their families.’—Translator.
[341] Edward Westermarck, The History of Human Marriage. London: Macmillan, 1892. See especially the two chapters on ‘The Forms of Human Marriage,’ and ‘The Duration of Marriage.’
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