Word: egoists
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...American is naturally an egoist. He loves to do things in a spectacular way with himself as hero. Subconsciously he knows himself to be just a little better, stronger, and more farsighted than any foreigner. This supreme confidence, misplaced as it may be, gives him unbounded energy to do his part well. It is, however, often damaging. He instinctively tends to belittle his enemy and to consider him a foe of decidedly inferior mettle. American soldiers, officers and men, arrive in France, fresh from their training camps, without any doubts that their march toward Berlin is to continue peacefully uninterrupted...
...world does not love a loafer, an egoist, a poltroon or a cad. Yet the world is apt to be misled by clothes, by a distant or elevated manner, by reputation or another inessential sham. No more does the Army love a loafer, an egoist, a poltroon, or a cad. And in the Army there is nothing to conceal or overcast a man's real nature. When fifty men are put in one kind of clothes and lined up to do close-order drill in an unindividualistic way, there is not much to hide the true from the false...
...will find Lucy and Richard in "The Ordeal of Richard Feverall," by George Meredith, which you will instantly order and read; after that you will order and read "The Egoist," by the same; and then I will leave you to yourself. This recommendation, or rather order, is well worth the postage it has cost you. I have read "Richard" thrice; and "The Egoist" six times, nor am I yet done with them...