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Show Nervous Disease Offten Accompanies Greatness It is entirely possible for a person to be neurotic, that is. have a nervous affection that gives rise to strange obsessions, and still lead a good life, even a great one. asserts P.renda Ueland In an article in Liberty. In proof of her assertion she cites sev-eial sev-eial famous examples of men who became be-came great in spite of ahnoi nullities. "Oliver Cromwell, lord protector of of England." she points out, "had violent vio-lent attacks of bad temper and once had a vision in which a woman of gigantic stature prophesied that .e would be the greatest man in England. "Goethe." she continues, "wrote much of his poetry while in a state somewhat resembling somnambulism and had periods of depression with hypochondrias and suicidal tendencies alternating with periods of extreme |