What does phobanthropy mean?
Phobanthropy means A morbid dread of humankind..
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A morbid dread of humankind..
Surely I need not point out to you the egregious egoism, the utter selfishness of the anarchists. Why, their pretended philanthropy is really phobanthropy, that would be monstrous were it not so insane.
After that I was afraid of Aino and Karl, I was more and more afraid as the days passed and as I fought up out of the mistiness and fever into strength and clarity of mind, convalescing. There was a return of my old phobanthropy. I had fled people, I had come to the wilderness in preference to any further effort to establish an amicable destiny in a society that abhorred me.
Very soon the cause of his phobanthropy becomes clear. He not only feels inferior to and ashamed before his fellow-country-men because of the failure in his studies and evades them as much as possible on account of this but he also lives in a world of perverted phantasies, which he himself feels to be filthy and painful.
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Phobanthropy means A morbid dread of humankind..
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Surely I need not point out to you the egregious egoism, the utter selfishness of the anarchists. Why, their pretended philanthropy is really phobanthropy, that would be monstrous were it not so insane.
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