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Insanity began to be seen by some as a rational response to a world gone mad. Andre Breton observed a World War I soldier who began to live in hisown parrallet universe in which he believed he was invulnerable to the war because the war was only a play with actors using dummy bullets and [...]

Einstein’s Theory of Relativity was a physics issue which regarded time and space, but was soon applied by some to truths in general as “moral relativism.  Dr. Ehrlich’s (1907, 1909) discovery of a cure for syphilis (Salvarsin) made the consequences of illicit sex less fearful (and more popular). It paired neatly with moral relativism since [...]

The discoveries of bacteria, viruses, genes that pre-disposed people to certain disease, etc. presented terrors to mankind which were unseen and were (for a long time) entirely uncontrollable. Then there were Freud’s theories of man’s unconscious mind which apparently caused him to act in abberant ways regardless of the rational and moral choices of his [...]