Europe under the Microscope, Traditional Emotional Tendencies (Bureaucracy, Militarism, Monarchy, Religious Politics, Democracy, Psychical Illness of Nationalism, Way to Social Reason, Prognosis and Therapy). These are the main subdivisions utilized in this rather turgid yet informing work.

All Europe is in a mess, a confusion, and the author would utilize psychoanalytic concepts to endeavor to give a diagnosis of the malady, a prognosis and a therapy.

The attack is vigorous and well informed even if a bit generalized. Bureaucracy is characterized as a form of magic, not far advanced from animism; Prohibitions and Censorships are infantile ways of preventing enlightenment, and permit various forms of parasitism to feed upon the Public, chiefly the Police, the Judiciary, and the Theologian. They all exploit the credulity and childishness of the masses. So the argument