Were it not so, the life of self-realisation might easily become a life of glorified and therefore intensified selfishness.

It is quite possible, as we know from experience, for a high degree of "culture" to co-exist with a high degree of egoism.

It is possible, for example, for the aesthetic instincts, when not kept aglow by the sympathetic, or hardened with an alloy of the scientific, to evolve a peculiar form of selfishness which leads at last to looseness of life and general demoralisation.

And it is possible for the scientific instincts, when developed at the expense of the aesthetic and the sympathetic, to evolve a hard, unemotional type of character which is self-centred and selfish owing to its positiveness and lack of imagination.

But these are instances of inharmonious growth.