An Enormous Irrational Obsession
The thing was, in fact, an enormous irrational obsession, it was, in the microcosm of our nation, curiously parallel to the egotistical wrath and jealousy that swayed my individual microcosm. It measured the excess of common emotion over the common intelligence, the legacy of inordinate passion we have received from the brute from which we came.
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Context: The narrator reflects on the drift toward war between Britain and Germany.
Not in a duel yet
Source: In the Days of the Comet, Book the First, Chapter the Third (The Revolver), § 4