CHAPTER V.

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Reducible to one primary fact: the feeling of strength or

weakness—Positive form: type, pride. Its physiological and

psychological characteristics. Its relation to joy and

anger. Its evolution—Negative form: humility. Its

semi-social character—Pathology, positive form: monomania

of power, megalomania—Extreme negative form: suicidal

tendency—Psychological problem of this practical negation

of the fundamental instinct.

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