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...degenerates, mental defectives, drunks, paupers, prostitutes and criminals." Both clans were descendants of Martin Kallikak, a soldier in the Revolution. After the war, Kallikak, who was of good stock, married a Quakeress, had seven respectable children. But before his marriage he had fathered a child of a feeble-minded servant girl. This roistering son, known to the neighborhood as "Old Horror," sired ten worthless offspring, who in turn were responsible for several generations of notorious Kallikaks...
...parents' log cabin at Palmyra, N. Y., looking as though he had seen a ghost. He had just talked with God in an oak grove. "And it came to pass," reported ragged Joe, "that the Son spake unto me, saying, 'verily, verily, I say unto you, my servant Joseph, that a new church will be established in these latter days and you will be my prophet...
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...Raleigh, N. C., a Negro servant named Eugene was told by his master to guard his car, stayed faithfully in it four days and three nights. Meantime his master forgot where he had parked, concluded Eugene had run off, stalked darkly homeward after notifying the police...
...unexpected entrance of a servant relieved us from a painful discussion," wrote Freud. "I was modest enough not to attribute the event to my irresistible personal attraction." This emotional "transference," which appeared as passionate, sensual love or fierce hatred, arose in every analysis, accounted for the powerful influence of an analyst over his patients. "[It is] the best instrument of the analytic treatment," Freud wrote...