PREFACE
d by ed air. And ion, to say a fetering to ttendance in suceppenicized bottable and frig did not simply criticize turer, anniing ts delicate but crus of it. It terly and conveyed a quiet despair, born partly of conviction, partly of a mode of t only unmasked ted lecturer and dismissed s irony tter at ant attitude of t presumptuous title under eppenivity, trife, ty, ted intellectuality. And alas! t still deeper, far belos, defects and ime, our intellect, our culture alone. It rigo t of all y, it bespoke eloquently in a single second t said: quot;See once all renoelligence, all ttainments of t, all progress to and trick!
itrary to my actual plan and intention, already conveyed to me; ance h him.
No I ime to say a little more about ;strangenessquot; and to tell in detail rangeness, traordinary and frig ter so, for I y as far as possible in t to put doo tell a story or to e an essay on psyc simply as an eyeness to contribute someto ture of t teppen behind him.
At t sigo my aunts once astonis natural reaction ed (and my aunt, ual person, suspected very muced t t in some or cer, and I sinct of time replaced by a sympaty for one ime I oo, t tion due to any defects of nature, but rato a profusion of gifts and potained to in tzsced ive genius a boundless and frigy for pain. I sa time t t of empt but self-contempt; for annie institutions and persons in alk
and foremost t , and foremost wed and despised.
And refrain from a psycion.