Word: egoism
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...that' or 'The Lord made me what I am,' which has some charm, perhaps, when associated with sweet seventeen but other wise is pretty sickening." This self-harmonizing, self-training, is for the Abbe the beginning of wisdom, and the Good. Though "a commonwealth of intelligent egoism has been built by the millions, and a skillful combination of the idealism of the few with the contributions of the many has largely eliminated from it all that might cause irritation and shame," there is plenty of cause for irritation and shame, says Abbe Dimnet, if a man will...
...Nevertheless, the qualities that he lacked as a leader were more than amply balanced by his devotion to public welfare outside of personal reward and his firm interpretation of the National Constitution. Rhetoric beats a shallow drum before the figure of a man whose effort was not stinted with egoism, whose diseeraing eyes were not slow to kindle with humanity. As a man who played many integral parts against the shifting background of national affairs his death destroys a vital link between past and present...
...made her buy it!" At length his boasted gift of prophecy fails and while the newsboys hawk the story of his downfall, his wife comes to him, offering her humble adoration to meet the new humility which she expects him to have found. But the man's egoism is pounding within him-he casts her aside as he prepares again to assail his rivals, a savage, solitary, tragic figure with nothing left but his will-to-power...
...Egoism", Professor Perry, Emerson...
...Egoism", Professor Perry, Emerson...