self-motives

Updated: May 11, 2025

There are hundreds of thousands of people at the present moment who are dying of mental or bodily disease their nervous systems broken down by troubles connected with excessive self-consciousness selfish fears and worries and restlessness. Society at large is perishing both in industry and in warfare through the domination in its organism of the self-motives of greed and vanity and ambition.

Edward Carpenter - Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning