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I mourn when brilliant writers like Andre Gide in his early works,1 and some unfaithful followers of Freud, tell us that we should yield to every impulse and desire, and “be ourselves�! What jejune nonsense! Civilization, as Freud recognized and proclaimed, is at almost every moment dependent upon the repression of instincts, and intelligence itself involves discrimination between desires that may be pursued and those that should be subdued. For generations, youngsters, especially in America, have been misled by such reheated but half-baked philosophy. I have left crime to the last in this
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