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jealousy present, which they not only deny, but fail abso- 

 lutely to recognize. Close competitors are not only jeal- 

 ous of each other, but particularly and more strongly 

 jealous of those whom they see forging ahead of them. 

 Jealousy always has in it a suppressed, hidden and irri- 

 tating admiration or fear of the one you are jealous of, 

 unless it is of the opposite sex. Then love or passion or 

 the sense of possession comes also into play. When a 

 medical authority dislikes another physician, he is un- 

 aware of the fact that he is jealous of the other man's 

 prominence, progress and work and is equally uncon- 

 scious of the fact that he himself feels a sense of dis- 

 possession. Therefore he hates him and envies him, 

 although he is convinced that such a thing is beyond all 

 possibility. Just as hunting animals are always jealous 

 of others sharing their prey and will fight them, so a 

 jealous woman will fight all other women with her hand- 

 iest weapon, the tongue, and a jealous man will stop at 

 no means to be rid of the source of his envy. Even fish 

 at spawning time show fight to other males that dare 

 approach their spawning mate. 'This,' says Sir George 

 Savage, 'is important because the male fish and its mate 

 are never otherwise than mentally in touch, for the female 

 fish lays its eggs outside and they are fertilized there 

 not within the body.' 



"In birds sexual jealousy occurs before as well as at 

 the time of the period of mating. The struggle is often 

 between parent and offspring as to possession of the 

 female. In the case of mammals, the struggle is fiercely 

 in evidence. The meekest of mice and the fiercest of 

 wild beasts really seek out combats for the possession of 

 their mates. This is also true of apes, ourang-outangs 

 and other monkeys 



"If the individual with this surplus of jealousy making 



