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                                              THE EGO 

 1	    From various friends comes inquiry as to the meaning
  	of a word employed in the foregoing colloquy. 
 3	    There are two English words, often used as if they were
  	synonyms, which really have a shade of difference between
  	them. 
 6	    An egotist is one who talks much of himself. Egotism
  	implies vanity and self-conceit. 
  	    Egoism is a more philosophical word, signifying a
 9	passionate love of self, which doubts all existence except
  	its own. An egoist, therefore, is one uncertain of every-
  	thing except his own existence. 
12	    Applying these distinctions to evil and God, we shall
  	find that evil is egotistic, — boastful, but fleeing like a
  	shadow at daybreak; while God is egoistic, knowing only
15	His own all-presence, all-knowledge, all-power.