“From the time an individual human comes into the world a sprawling, squalling, unpeepered vagrant, to the hour he goes out in tragedy and pain, life is one continuation of the very conditions which brought him into the world a confirmed egoist.”

Source: Better-World Philosophy: A Sociological Synthesis (1899), Individual Culture, p. 256

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