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Burghölzli-Zürich, 11 November 1908
Dear Professor Freud,
Magna est vis veritatis tuae et praevalebit!1 What one might call the dismal news in your last letter—Meringer, Morton Prince, Dr. Parker—has bucked me up no end. Nothing is more detestable than to blow the horn of instant public acclaim and settle down on densely populated ground. Hence I am delighted by the vigorous opposition we provoke. Obviously there are plenty more waiting to make fools of themselves. Even Forel still has a chance to do so at the eleventh hour. For some time now I have noticed the gentle zephyrs of prudery blowing across from America, for which Morton Prince seems to have a quite special organ. Everyone is terribly afraid for his practice, everyone is waiting to play a dirty trick on someone else. That is why we hear so little of the people who have worked with me and visited you. In America they are simply pushed to the wall. I have turned down Dr. Parker despite his honeyed letter, three pages long; the project has nothing to commend it. Also I received information about Dr. Parker from Dr. Hoch2 which doesn't make me at all enthusiastic about him. The man has turned to us merely on Peterson's3 recommendation, so he has no idea of the real state of affairs.