This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...The mother at this time felt that her son needed still further protection against a world which might not treat him with due consideration. The son loved most that parent who did not wish him to work. In the course of events, as an attractive young man, the son formed a strong attachment for a pretty girl. This ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...The mother at this time felt that her son needed still further protection against a world which might not treat him with due consideration. The son loved most that parent who did not wish him to work. In the course of events, as an attractive young man, the son formed a strong attachment for a pretty girl. This presaged division of love, and after that the mother was looked upon as a bore because of her interference. Thus ended one example of a case in which jealousy insidiously defeated its own object, the owner of the jealousy not being at any time aware of its presence. Thousands of lives all about us have been wrecked by this relic of the primeval mind, very much as thousands of lives have been wrecked by a vestigial organ like the appendix. Envy also is primordial selfishness. We can trace it back to one type of cell in the lower forms of organic life. The cell divides by two, four, etc. Traits of the mind develop along with body development. When we have a primeval trait like envy persisting in the midst of present higher development it is quite as difficult for an individual to make adjustment to polite environment as if he had a primitive arm or leg. An individual with atavistic features trying to make efficient employment of the primitive traits of envy and of jealousy is quite as much handicapped in the best social order as an individual with arrested development of an arm or of a leg would be in mountain climbing. In fact, one cannot climb the mountain of social life if he lugs along a heavy weight of primitive mental trait of any sort. Hatred is primordial, and dates back to repulsion of microbes by the early soma cells arranging themselves for protection of germ cells. I have often known men and women of fine general character and development s...
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