TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: --Obvious print and punctuation errors were corrected. --Whereas adequate characters are not available, superscript has been rendered as a^b and a^{bc}. DEGENERATION BY THE SAME AUTHOR. _Uniform with this Volume._ CONVENTIONAL LIES OF OUR CIVILIZATION. PARADOXES. LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN. DEGENERATION BY MAX NORDAU AUTHOR OF ‘CONVENTIONAL LIES OF OUR CIVILIZATION,’ ‘PARADOXES,’ ETC. Translated from the Second Edition of the German Work Popular Edition LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN 1898 [_All rights reserved_] _First Edition_ _February, 1895._ _New Impressions, March 4, 1895; March 22, 1895; April, 1895; May, 1895; June, 1895; August, 1895; November, 1895; (Popular Edition), September, 1898._ Dedicated TO CÆSAR LOMBROSO, PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY AND FORENSIC MEDICINE AT THE ROYAL UNIVERSITY OF TURIN, BY THE AUTHOR. TO PROFESSOR CÆSAR LOMBROSO, _TURIN_. _DEAR AND HONOURED MASTER_ , _I dedicate this book to you, in open and joyful recognition of the fact that without your labours it could never have been written._ _The notion of degeneracy, first introduced into science by Morel, and developed with so much genius by yourself, has in your hands already shown itself extremely fertile in the most diverse directions. On numerous obscure points of psychiatry, criminal law, politics, and sociology, you have poured a veritable flood of light, which those alone have not perceived who obdurately close their eyes, or who are too short-sighted to derive benefit from any enlightenment whatsoever._ _But there is a vast and important domain into which neither you nor your disciples have hitherto borne the torch of your method--the domain of art and literature._