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When a European community has been overtaken by a disaster like the one about which we write, women become hysterical, men loose their nerves, many are mad with terror and one and all have lost their reason … The fact that Europeans are more nervous and excitable than Japanese — may be partly accounted for perhaps, by the fact that the latter nation has been cradled amongst Eartquakes and Volcanoes the manifestations of which rank amongst the greatest of nature’s terrors. If from time to time England or any other […]