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282 hence it is a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality. —The detected criminal does not suffer because of the crime committed, but rather because of the disgrace or the annoyance at having committed a blunder, or because of the craving created by the familiar element, and it requires acute discernment to distinguish in these cases. Every visitor of prisons and penitentiaries is astonished at the rare instances of genuine “remorse": and the frequent yearning after the evil, beloved old crime. —When, in the third century, Greek philosophy became a matter of public emulation, a considerable number of philosoplıcrs were happy in the secret thought that others who lived according to different principles and derived no satisfaction from them, could not but feel provoked by their happiness; they believed that this happiness was the surest argument to refuting the others; wherefore it suſliced them to make a continuous display of happiness, and in so doing they ended by being happy themselves. Such was, for instance, the fate of the cynics. —The morality of the increasing nerve-power is joyous and restless, whereas the