“If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.”

The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919)

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American psychiatrist 1867–1923

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