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one's fame, one's intellectual ability, one's goodness, or 

 whatever the case may be. 



The empirical life of Self is divided, as below, into 

 Material. Social. Spiritual. 



Self- 

 Seeking. 



Self- 

 Estimation. 



Bodily Appetites 

 and Instincts 



Love of Adorn- 

 ment, Foppery, 

 Acquisitiveness, 

 Constructiveness, 



Love of Home, etc. 



Personal Vanity, 

 Modesty, etc. 



Pride of Wealth, 

 Fear of Poverty 



Desire to please, be 

 noticed, admired, 

 etc. 



Sociability, Emula- 

 tion, Euvy, Love, 

 Pursuit of Honor, 

 Ambition, etc. 



Social and Family 

 Pride, Vainglory, 

 Snobbery, Humil- 

 ity. Shame, etc. 



Intellectual, Moral 

 and Religious 

 Aspiration, Con- 

 scientiousness 



Sense of Moral or 

 Mental Superior- 

 ity, Purity, etc. 



Sense of Inferiority 

 or of Guilt 



THE PURE EGO. 



Having summed up in the above table the principal 

 results of the chapter thus far, I have said all that need" 



receiving more love. We see some individuals surpassing the rest in aston- 

 ishing feats, and drawing after them the gaze and admiration of a crowd. 

 We acquire a series of fi.xed associations towards persons so situated; favor- 

 able in the case of the superior, and unfavorable to the inferior. To the 

 strong and laborious man we attach an estimate of greater reward, and feel 

 that to be in his place would be a happier lot than falls to others. Desiring, 

 as we do, from the primary motives of our being, to possess good things, 

 and observing these to come by a man's superior exertions, we feel a respect 

 for such exertion and a wish that it might be ours. We know that we also 

 put forth exertions for our share of good things; and on witnessing others, 

 we are apt to be reminded of ourselves and to make comparisons with our- 

 selves, which comparisons derive their interest from the substantial conse- 

 quences. Having thus once learned to look at other persons as per- 

 lOrming labors, greater or less, and as realizing fruits to accord; being, 

 moreover, in all respects like our fellows, — we find it an exercise neither 

 difficult nor unmeaning to contemplate self as doing work and receiving 

 the reward. ... As we decide between one man and another, — which is 

 worthier, ... so we decide between self and all other men; being, how- 

 ever, in this decision under the bias of our own desires." A couple of pages 

 farther on we read : " By the terms Self-complacency. Self-gratulation, is 

 indicated a positive enjoyment in dwelling upon our own merits and 

 belongings. As in other modes, so here, the starting point is the contem- 

 plation of excellence or pleasing qualities iJi another person, accompanied 

 more or less with fondness or love. " Self-pity is also regarded by Professor 



