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"God's Anointed," as Hellar had scoffingly inferred, not only proclaimed the Germans as the chosen race, but also proclaimed an actual divinity of the blood of the House of Hohenzollern. That William II did have some such notions in his egomania I believe is recorded in authentic history.
A failure in honour which almost amounts to a failure in memory: an egomania that is honestly blind to the fact that the other party is an ego; and, above all, an actual itch for tyranny and interference, the devil which everywhere torments the idle and the proud.
I saw him now as he was, a victim of egomania, a worldling, tyrannical, falsely sentimental, and unfaithful steward, a liar perhaps even an unbeliever. His whole desire I knew it now was not to be good, but to be successful. His charity, his pity for the poor, his generosity, his care for his church, for his schools all was pretence. I saw Marcus Harding as he was. And what followed?"
Alice has advertised our romantic story, you see." She clasped her hands together and adopted a pose in caricature of the play heroine in an ecstasy of egomania. But Martin's laugh was short and hollow. He wasn't amused. "How did you get on?" he asked. "Lost seventy dollars that's all. Three-handed bridge with Grandfather and Grandmother was not a good apprenticeship. I must have a few lessons.
My egomania, like a swollen thing, has become impossible to articulate or to reduce to the impotent ironies of clay and paint. But I must beware of falling asleep under it. "My friends have vanished as naturally as if by death. I have forbidden them to come. This disturbs them, but see to it, Goliath, that no one ever enters my room unless I bring them. Frighten them if they come.
In these slight notes I have suggested the principal strong points of the Prussian character a failure in honor which almost amounts to a failure in memory; an egomania that is honestly blind to the fact that the other party is an ego, and, above all, an actual itch for tyranny and interference, the devil which everywhere torments the idle and the proud.
"The complacent egomania of man, his tyrannical indifferences, his little list of questions and answers which suffices for his wisdom, these are the chief phenomena or symptoms of his sanity. He alone has survived the ages by means of a series of ludicrous adjustments, until today he walks on two legs the crowning absurdity of an otherwise logical Nature.
Among the thyroid-centered attitudes toward the self gyrate more than in any other type. Egomania and megalomania occur most often in thyroid unstable individuals. In his classic Inquiries into Human Faculty, Francis Galton laid down some fundamental considerations concerning energy and sensitivity as mental traits.
"Do you share that materialistic dream? Our realm is spiritual. Nationality the world stinks with it! Germany for the Germans, Russia for the Russians. Foreigners to the devil pah! Egomania posing as patriotism. Human brotherhood is what we stand for.
What bristling and baseless egomania sways him to affront the Daily Intelligencer with his contumacious and indecent unpunctuality?" "Who, chief?" asked Gootes. Le ffaçasé ignored him.
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