The principle on which he acts is as indefensible as the personal or egoistical democracy of the slaveholders and their sympathizers.
The egoistical form is checked, sufficiently weakened by the defeat of the rebels; but the social form believes that it has triumphed, and that individuals are effaced in society, and the States in the Union.
Of the several tendencies mentioned, the humanitarian tendency, egoisticalat the South, detaching the individual from the race and socialistic at the North, absorbing the individual in the race, is the most dangerous.
In the following sections of this work, I shall find occasion to show on what organic grounds, and in consequence of what peculiarities of their brain and nervous system, degenerates are necessarily egoistical and impulsive.
Nietzsche’s fundamental idea of utter disregard and brutal contempt for all the rights of others standing in the way of an egoistical desire, must please the generation reared under the Bismarckian system.
The end which sanctifies the means of the Jesuit in cuirass may sometimes be of general utility; but it will quite as often, and oftener, be an egoistical one.
The latter affords the purest examples of an unalterable tenderness, in no way disturbed by egoistical considerations.
Even those persons whom the child seems to love from the very beginning, it loves at the outset because it has need of them, cannot do without them, in others words, out of egoistical motives.
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