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momentary absent-mindedness of Mother Nature,
perhaps at their birth, perhaps at their conception.
What is the explanation of the enormous increase
of sexual inversion? Does nature revenge
herself on the masculinized girl of to-day by rearing
an effeminate son from her straightened hips
and flattened breasts? Or are we the bewildered
spectators of a new phase of evolution with a
gradual amalgamation of two distinct animals
into a new, hitherto unknown specimen, last
survival of a doomed race on a worn-out planet,
missing link between the Homo sapiens of
to-day and the mysterious Super-Homo of
to-morrow?
The great benefit derived from hypnotic
anæsthesia in surgical operations and childbirth is
now admitted by everybody. Even more striking
is the beneficial effect of this method in the most
painful of all operations, as a rule still to be
endured without anæsthesia—Death. What it
was granted to me to do for many of our dying
soldiers during the last war is enough to make me
thank God for having had this powerful weapon
in my hands. In the autumn of 1915 I spent two
unforgettable days and nights among a couple of
hundred dying soldiers, huddled together under
their bloodstained great-coats on the floor of a
village church in France. We had no morphia,
no chloroform, no anæsthetics whatsoever to
alleviate their tortures and shorten their agony.
Many of them died before my eyes, insensible and
unaware, often even a smile on their lips, with my
hand on their forehead, my slowly repeated words
of hope and comfort resounding in their ears, the
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