"Even if the more apocalyptic Germans were right and the German disorder really constituted "a return to primordial instinct, to the mystic chaos of creation out of which the great ecstasies of revolutions and religions arise," that could not alter the fact that the prerequisite of any true creation is freedom."
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Edgar Ansel Mowrer
Edgar Ansel Mowrer (March 8, 1892 β March 2, 1977) was an American journalist and writer who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1933
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