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Show Nervous Disease Off ten Accompanies Greatness It Is entirely possible for a person to be neurotic, thut Is, have a nervous affection that gives rise to strange obsessions, and still lead a good life, even a great one, asserts Brenda Uebmii in an article in Liberty. In proof of her assertion she cites several sev-eral famous examples of men who became be-came great in spite of nbnoimiilities. "Oliver Cromwell, lord protector of of England," she points out, j'hud 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 mu.'h of his poetry while in a state somewhat resembling somnambulism and hail periods of depression with hypochondrias and suicidal tendencies alternating with periods of extreme j".v. |