no longer comfortable in public. As I have suggested, he saw in such onslaughts one kind
of index of the power of his work. But they also shook his self-confidence and reinforced
his sense, acquired from the childhood tragedies, of being a “marked man.”
If Reich refrained from denouncing his opponents in public, he did not remain
quiet in private. To the growing roll of his enemies were now added the “Scharffenbergs,
Kreybergs, and Hoffmanns,” whom he would bitterly denounce as late as the 19508. In qui-
eter moments he might recall their activities, shake his head slowly, and remark: “What a way
to go into the history books—as my enemies!”
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