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...amplification of his ideas concerning the health and sickness of nations, Professor Hooton has made a number of observations about other European nations as well. He is fond of comparing nations and their diseases to humans and their allments. "In some, national discase manifests itself mainly in lethargy, stagnation, and general debility. In others, unfortunately, it takes the form of frenzy, and the entire state rums amok wreaking world wide havoc...
When a man murders his wife to get her money, the crime may be labelled 'social pathology'," Hooton remarked. "But if a man takes an axe and chops Iris wife and all of his children into bits, he is commonly adjudged to be crazy or mentally deficient." The same definitions might well be applied to national states as well, he suggests...
Swinging into what he admits to be "map diagnoses and prognoses of sick nations," Professor Hooton had a lot to say on almost every important European country. Russia, he maintains, has adequate raw material with which to form a good and peaceable society. "The trouble is that it is too raw," he added. The severity of the Czarist-regime forced of liquidation of the powerful elements of pre-Communist Russia he asserted. The result of this process has been the rise of "paranoid and sadistic dictators who have created a despotism far worse than was that of the Czars--more...
Speaking of France, Hooton declared that a "process of biological deterioration has been responsible, in considerable measure, although not exclusively, for the collapse of the French nation." This, he maintains, has resulted from the country's loss of its best man-power in successive and exhausting wars. In France "loyalties of a national character shrank to a vanishing point and were replaced by class antagonisms," selfishness, and greed became outstanding manifestations of French national behavior...
...Hooton, Germany is "the regue elephant of the herd of national pachyderms, and it baffles veterinary skill to discover the basic cause of its homicidal mania." It evils have so permeated the present generation of the country that "nothing short of a complete obliteration of the German state" can destroy its influence...