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Updated: June 28, 2025


The liar Ananias perished for that; and yet out of these gates, where angels may have kept watch out of the tomb of Christ Christian priests issue with a lie in their hands. What a place to choose for imposture, good God! to sully with brutal struggles for self-aggrandisement or shameful schemes of gain!

How lovely she would look! Why was it that this sweet picture of home filled Will's heart only with discontent and an abiding unrest? The answer is plain, because he had determined, come what would, to sever himself from that homely, simple life, to cast the thought of it into the background, to live only for the future, and that future one of success and self-aggrandisement.

Canada was passing through an ordeal, which, sooner or later, Britain too must face. Her answer, in this case, to the dilemma between service of the community and self-aggrandisement was not unworthy of the mother country. Still, in spite of the acquittal of Hincks, there were cases of complicated corruption, and a multitude of little squalid sins.

As I have said, there is no fear of the development of a military autocracy in that country or the uprising of a general with Napoleonic ideas and ambition. The generals who justly earned distinction during the recent war are singularly modest men, with no capacity for self-advertising and no desire whatever for self-aggrandisement.

As the child grows older, the desire to grow becomes a desire for self-aggrandisement, a desire to shine in various ways, to surpass others, to be admired, to be praised; and though in this stage it may give rise to much vanity and selfishness, still, so long as it has vigorous growth behind it and is in its essence a desire for further growth, it is in the main a healthy tendency, and to call it sinful or vicious would be a misuse of words.

If it is asked why there should have been any necessity to pass through the psychic ordeal imposed on me by Aselzion, I reply Look at the world in which men and women generally live, and say frankly whether its ways are such as to engender happiness! Look at society look at politics look at commerce all mere schemes for self-aggrandisement! And more than all, look at the Sham of modern religion!

These two things go together very much nowadays; in fact one scarcely ever sees them apart. The fair, southern city of the sea was not behind other modern cities in luxury and self-aggrandisement, and there were certain members of the population who made it their business to show all they were worth in their domestic and home surroundings.

Therefore, those who move a king, as in the game of chess, one square at a time and no more, were particularly cautious as to the 'way' in which they moved him. He had shown himself difficult to manage once or twice; and interested persons could not pursue their usual course of self-aggrandisement with him, as he was not susceptible to flattery.

Peter the Great, who was more than any other man the creator of modern Russia, saw clearly that the only way of holding this inchoate State-mass together was to call into existence a huge administrative machine, and he saw equally clearly that, if such a machine was not itself to become a disruptive force through the personal ambition and self-aggrandisement of its members, it must be framed on democratic and not aristocratic principles.

I do not like that man, sir. 'You belong to the majority, then, Baltic. Few people like Cargrim, or trust him. But what is he to you? 'My employer. Yes, sir, you may well look astonished. Mr Cargrim asked me down to Beorminster for a certain purpose. 'Connected with his self-aggrandisement, no doubt.

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