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...Adult infantilism...
...genuine disorders of body, mind and soul. Doctors in less complex communities may well envy the scope for observation that has been his. the diversity and clearcutness of his cases. Proportionately, he has a more rigid test to pass before his discussion of sexual unhappiness, his strictures on adult-infantilism, his "shudder" and "premonition" of a new Dark Age, can be accepted by the fairly happy rank and unselfconscious file whose physicians still give them castor oil, gruff instructions...
...hundred of his fellows, the chapter on "urnings" and "uranism" -in which the four long letters, invented or not, are as remarkable as anything that will be published this year-let the reader attend a chapter which may mightily shock and profit parents teachers, preachers, public officials and alleged adults of every sort- the chapter on "Adult Infantilism In a Nation, In an Individual, In Literature...
...Adult-infantilism is our chief deficiency as a people." The symptoms are clubbiness, boasted possessions and achievement, love of making rules (laws) and breaking them, suggestibility (advertising) conformity (fashions), fads, seriousness at play (bald golfers "like children playing Papa and Mama"), love of praise, extremes in speech ("marvelous", "wonderful"), calling wives "the girls' and husbands "the boys", short- lived curiosity, emotional unbalance and shallowness, limitation of social intercourse to personalities and amusements. The causes are: coddling parents ("They were allowed to meet the hazards of life") prosperity through science; mass education, to the neglect of culture. A result...
...individual in whom adult-infantilism was notably seen is, of course, William J. Bryan...