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Dancing mania—

To the end of the fifteenth century.

To the end of the seventeenth century.

War mania—

Speculative manias—

If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible. Every phase of individuality and originality, no matter how eccentric, should