"Maximal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and a warning of the approach of foreign bodies, its end would be defeated if it involved a simple reaction to the contact of the organism with itself. This need of protection it is which involves the necessity of a minimal excitation producing a maximal effect, though the mechanism whereby this takes place has caused considerable discussion. We may, it is probable, best account for it by invoking the summation-irradiation theory of pain-pleasure, the summation ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis |
