tentions and ways of thinking in the human beings themselves, which
would be a real basis for a real reconstruction. I mean work democracy,
based upon science, work, and natural love.
The "criticism" of your German biologist is a very usual one and
often heard. I am tired of it, and prefer to treat my cancer mice with
orgone radiation. I met here Einstein, told him the whole story. What he
said was that the whole thing is phantastic, but he did not reject it and
understood very well that the connection between the bions and energy
being dissolved from matter is the real thing. The discussions still go on.
Bacteriologists as well as pathologists and biologists will, I am afraid,
have to rebuild their thinking as well as their acting. The first book
about "Living Matter"* is translated completely into English, and I
hope that it will appear soon.
I understand your worries about where your school could find a place
in the future, but do not worry; if your school will not be able to find
a place in the new world then nothing honest and decent will.
Write again and more often please, and give my greetings to Erna, t
Constance and all the other friends.
Summerhill School
Festiniog, North Wales
My dear Reich,
- • •
March 4, 1941You may have noticed in my letters how vague I have been inmentioning psychological matters. I was held back by the thought that
my letter might be read by some conventional young lady in the
Censor's office, and I didn't think it fair to have the strong meat of sex
psychology placed before one who most likely is unaccustomed to the
terms and ideas we use in writing and conversation. I wrote to the
Chief Censor and he asked me to send any such letter via him.
I have been reading your books again with more and more admira
tion. I feel, however, that your Orgasm Reflex is too egocentric, too
- The Function of the Orgasm (Volume One of The Discovery of the Orgone).
t A young refugee pianist whom Reich had befriended and to whom the Neills
had given a home in Summerhill.