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...went to Harrow and Cambridge, where he acquired the old school tie and what he himself called the "vague humanism" of the day. Nietzsche was "all the rage," as were the prefaces of Bernard Shaw and the sexual case histories of Krafft-Ebing. It was an age which considered religion at best a polite convention and at worst, the opium of the masses. Like his fellow liberals, Nehru believed that science would solve all human problems...
...essentials, and often failed to understand him. Nehru "could not take seriously" an idea which Gandhi took very seriously: that India should eschew modern industry and return to the culture of the spinning wheel. He disapproved of Gandhi's preaching sexual continence; that, said the onetime student of Krafft-Ebing, would lead straight to neuroses...
...crypto-Fascist," and his relations with girls have been limited to an occasional game of tennis. Dick Barton is, in fact, so much the repressed antitype of his Victorian forerunners that British Freudians expect him any day to "break out spectacularly, in a manner which will horrify Krafft-Ebing...
...excessively wrinkled and bagged trousers, a misshapen corduroy coat, grimy sneakers . . . red fez with gilt tassel." He became the best-hated man on the campus. He wrote plays with such titles as Mabel, the Beautiful Shopgirl, and played the feminine leads himself. Sex-obsessed, he sat up nights reading Krafft-Ebing and Havelock Ellis, poring over accounts of the trial of Oscar Wilde. He fought every boy in sight, bought a .45-caliber revolver and talked sullenly of suicide. "It may well be," says Biographer Adams mildly, "that he was still in some confusion about himself...
...never got his wildness quite under artistic control. In his thefts from Homer, Keats, Joyce Kilmer, the marriage service and Shakespeare, Burglar Powys invariably knocks over the china closet or steps on the cat. The following not untypical sentence should be engraved on the tomb of Krafft-Ebing: "He was witnessing . . . what few men have been privileged to contemplate: namely, the writhings of a lust-demented lady on the breast of a man whose arms were tied behind his back...