But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.

There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings.

Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.

However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.

But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.