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THE author directs attention to the menace of the falling birth-rate in Britain, and laments it. He refers to an article of his written in 1915 in which he says that “we may eventually see the Slav races increased relatively in such enormous proportion that they may come to dominate all Europe”. Obviously the race of armament is of no matter; we must start a fierce race to have the highest birth-rate in Europe and so swamp the Slavs by sheer numbers ! The author would include many of the psychoses and epilepsy as explainable on the grounds of repression and other psycho-analytic mechanisms. We would be interested to hear the results of treatment of these conditions on psychoanalytic lines. We have seen little good result in these psychoses. It is easy to advance theories but so difficult to convince scientifically minded people.
Sacrifice to Attis:
a Study of Sex and Civilisation. By Dr. William A. Brend. Pp. v + 350. (London: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1936.) 10s. 6d. net.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 138, 952 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138952b0
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