. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1919, . developed herd instinct. Why do all animalscongregate together? For protection and various other reasons, and that is whatpatriotism is. Some men got drunk, and when they wakened up, they foundthemselves in the army, and have been sorry ever since, and such men often b:canieshell-shocked. True shell-shock is a nervous breakdown, due to the great strainthe man is under, the responsibilities he has, and personal worries concerning hishome or finances. Such a case is easy to cure; take liim out of the lines, sendhim to shows, and give him a few detecti
. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1919, . developed herd instinct. Why do all animalscongregate together? For protection and various other reasons, and that is whatpatriotism is. Some men got drunk, and when they wakened up, they foundthemselves in the army, and have been sorry ever since, and such men often b:canieshell-shocked. True shell-shock is a nervous breakdown, due to the great strainthe man is under, the responsibilities he has, and personal worries concerning hishome or finances. Such a case is easy to cure; take liim out of the lines, sendhim to shows, and give him a few detective stories to read. The next type is the neurasthenic, and it is easy to understand what he man goes to France and he has all kinds of discomforts; your soldier tellsyou only a quarter as bad as they are. Then they are up against something else—they are in danger all the time, and the greatest instinct of all is manifest, theinstinct of self-preservation. The man is under the emotion of fear all the -Motor mechanics at work. This is a great stimulant and a very successfultherapeutic measure. and the man who admits he is scared is not going to be shell-shocked. Theneurasthenic says, I am not scared, and he refuses to think about it. In refusingto think about it, he is attempting the impossible thing. Anything that concernsyour life you cannot refuse to think about; if you do, that is a repression, andyou go to pieces and go to pieces very fast. That is what happens to yourneurasthenic. He will turn up his collar or hide under a sheet, under a machine-gun barrage or shrapnel barrage. He is no longer a thinking man; he is underthe instinct of self-preservation. There is a fight going on between the herdinstinct and the instinct of self-preservation. Another big thing comes out here:He says he is afraid, and he is afraid of being afraid, and he says, I am a , the poor chap is not a coward at all, and that is why he gets cannot recognize t
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