Word: paranoiacs
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...Joseph Jastrow of the University of Wisconsin replied, not sparing Sir Arthur in his absence. He put spiritism in a class with witchcraft, hysteria and paranoiac illusion, charging spiritualists, as distinct from psychic researchers, with "wishful thinking and logic-blindness." He was at pains, however, to appreciate the large significance of spiritualism's implications, whether they be baffling truth or "stupendous" error...
...Bradley" himself, despite a certain lack of ingenuousness that inevitably marks confessions in the Occident, remains a frenzied, consumptive paranoiac, self-immolated for revenge upon Barbarism, babbling as he waits for death that the grey bones of New England babies became fertilizer for the prairie soil; that the Puritans, nurtured on illusion, are wild asses run amuck when illusion has withered. Whoever he is, he once wrote (44) a novel and sent it to the late Walter Hines Page, who returnee it with the gentle words: "Either I am pretty crazy...
...verse); the collection became the Koran, a marvelous conglomeration of divine edicts, personal justifications of and promises to Mohammed, paraphrases of Jewish folklore and inscrutable foreign catchwords thrown in like sacred seasoning. Occasionally there came a flash of lofty poetry. Whether or not he was a fake medium, a paranoiac, epileptic, self-deluded, oversexed demagog, Mohammed was undoubtedly a grand and grotesque figure with a good memory and a shrewd pagan appraisal of Moses and Jesus as capable men who had founded religions by giving their subconscious selves free rein...
Last week the Premier's would-be-assassin, the Hon. Violet Albina Gibson, sister of Baron Ashbourne, known since childhood by her family to have been of unsound mind but never restrained by them, was pronounced by the Italian alienists, "a dangerous homicidal paranoiac who should be permanently held in an insane asylum...