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Show WHEN SELF-LOVE IS WOUNDED Th.n It Called Into Play the Ugliest of All Human Passion, That of Jealousy. ' Jealousy Is the ugliest of all human pnsalons-nnd the one which makes the greatest misery In the world, , It Is tho outcome of egotism, tho twin sister of vanity, and Its brood are all the sorrows of the human race. Hut what Is Jealousy when analyzed? an-alyzed? It Is the bitterness which arises I'ilhcr when someone elso pososses that which wo desire and cannot obtain, ob-tain, or tho fenr that what wo pos-m-m mny bo tnicen from us by another. The very fnct of our feeling fenr bhows that we know this other possessor a power stronger than our on n and this Is a reflection upon our pflrsotinl merit, and therefore n wound to our selfjjovo, says Elinor (llyn In tho London Lon-don Times. Men and women are Jealous when niiMhcr approaches one they love their natural egotism Is wounded by the Inference that this other bus not I ifiillxed their own worth, and dnres to d'-spule their sway Jealousy being I rotist'fl to fury should the mm they Into respond to alien glances, because the wound to solf-Iovo is deeper still , it tbut cafe, ond tno poison sinks Into tbc very being. But Jealousy between the sexes Is n more pnrdonnblo fault than any other oth-er form of the virus, because it goes hack to the Instinct of self-preservation and, In tho broader sense, race-pieservntlon, race-pieservntlon, and although Its Indulgence Indul-gence produces misery nnd crime, Its in Igln Is not altogether base or wholly czntlstlcnl. |