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Rh exaggeration of self-conscious activity to the grandeur of absolute creative power. This will appear in the following passage: "Since in the very individuality of the person there is the power to resist the environment, or to make it subservient to the self, a capability of persistence under change and at the same time capability to so react upon the self that the self is thereby self-produced, what is there to indicate that this process of self-making ever ceases? . . . And if the individual makes himself, and if there are before him infinite possibilities of development, why do not these very facts presuppose the immortality of the soul?" Self-consciousness as the path to unselfishness, and altruism as the foundation of business enterprise, are daring theories, as bold as the epigram, "extremes meet."

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