mad-doctors in almost all European countries had an opportunity to study the type close at hand, wherever the religious neurosis — or as I call it, “the religious mood” — made its latest epidemical outbreak and display as the “Salvation Army” — If it be a question, however, as to what has been so extremely interesting to men of all sorts in all ages, and even to philosophers, in the whole phenomenon of the saint, it is undoubtedly the appearance of the miraculous therein — namely, the immediate SUCCESSION OF OPPOSITES, of states of the soul regarded as morally antithetical: it was believed here to be self-evident that a “bad man” was all at once turned into a “saint,” a good man.

The hitherto existing psychology was wrecked at this point, is it not