men, have an ancestry, and a knowledge of the ancestors leads to a discovery of the cousins. Section 7. (e) Egoism. It is possible that the inner character of egoism shall be as profoundly potent in legal matters as in the daily life. Goethe has experienced its effect with unparalleled keenness. ``Let me tell you something,'' he writes (Conversations with Eckermann. ``All periods considered regressive or transitional are subjective.英文原著 · 《Criminal Psychology》
Pregnancy, 317. Prejudices, 177, 412; and egoism, 413; and names, 414. Premonitions, 466. Prepossession, 412; and egoism, 413; and names, 414. PREYER, 210, 368. Principle, the fundamental, 4. Probability, 131; and skepticism, 131; increases through repetition, 132; and equal distribution, 133; value of, 148; conditioned and uncondi- tioned, 151; Kirchmann on , 152; and criminal procedure, 157; and rule, 158. Promises, and character, 58.英文原著 · 《Criminal Psychology》
I felt it high time to wedge in a word about my own far less satisfactory affairs. But it was not necessary for me to recount half my troubles. Raffles could be as full of himself as many a worse man, and I did not like his society the less for these human outpourings. They had rather the effect of putting me on better terms with myself, through bringing him down to my level for the time being. But his egoism was not even skin-deep; it was rather a cloak, which Raffles could cast off quicker than any man I ever knew, as he did not fail to show me now.英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
So the Marquise was left to herself. She might live on, perfectly silent, amid the silence which she herself had created; there was nothing to draw her forth from the tapestried chamber where her grandmother died, whither she herself had come that she might die, gently, without witnesses, without importunate solicitude, without suffering from the insincere demonstrations of egoism masquerading as affection, which double the agony of death in great cities.英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
This woman who refused to live was to know the bitterness of these reprieves in the depths of her loneliness; in moral agony, which death would not come to end, she was to serve a terrible apprenticeship to the egoism which must take the bloom from her heart and break her in to the life of the world.英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
It had been a fine thought, a "King's thought." Others had followed, profiting by his mistakes. But might it not be carried further than even they had gone, shaped into some noble venture that should serve the future. Was not her America here? Why seek it further? What was this unknown Force, that, against all sense and reason, seemed driving her out into the wilderness to preach. Might it not be mere vanity, mere egoism. Almost she had convinced herself. And then there flashed remembrance of her mother.英文原著 · 《All Roads Lead to Calvary》