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Insert P. 128

We come now to a section of this chapter which I print with
greater reluctance than any other. Indeed, I have decided several
times to remove it from the manuscript, but each time it has been
reinstated. Mr. Noice’s subsequent conduct cannot be understood by
me, and therefore presumably not by the reader, without some appraisal
of his mental processes and motives. We must therefore discuss two
illnesses which he suffered and must relate what Mr. Noice himself has said and implied
about the feelings of injury and anger which developed in his mind
as a result of how he was treated. These are among the few motives
known to us that go to explain - inadequately, it is true - some of
his remarkable actions later.