war-maddened

Updated: May 20, 2025

Bertrand Russell cites the case of an unfortunate man, conductor on a tramway, married, with children, and honourably discharged from the army, who killed himself on account of the insults and persecutions of the women of Middlesex. In all countries, poor wretches like him have been pursued, crazed, driven to death, by these war-maddened Bacchantes.

Romain Rolland - Clerambault: The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War