The concept of "Economic Man)ladvanced by Adam Smith should be replaced by the new concept of "Economic Culture Man)lwlth implications of combining egoism with gregariousness.
For the egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
(—Perhaps one will here recall that Athenian who also declared war upon pure " scientificality, " to wit, Socrates, who also elevated egoism to the estate of a morality).
" Would it not have been more unfortunate if I had made no impression at all on the cold egoism of a priest who was already sated with power and enjoyment" ?
In Nejdanov it is another picture of that youth which we see—youth reduced to ineffectiveness by fatalism and by the egoism of the lyric nature which longs to gain dramatic freedom, but cannot achieve it.
Arthur's, as you know, was a loving nature. Deeds of kindness were as easy to him as a bad habit: they were the common issue of his weaknesses and good qualities, of his egoism and his sympathy.
He knew what that common cause was, and at the time took no interest in it whatever, but from a feeling of fellowship and egoism gave the money, that it might not be thought that he was afraid.
The Divine purity, the unvarying ardour of this love, which in the end can no longer be contented even by the words of the Gospel: " Love thy neighbour as thyself, " because he finds in them a taint of egoism!