Life for both sexes--and I looked at them$$$ shouldering their way along the pavement--is arduous$$$ difficult$$$ a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and strength. More than anything$$$ perhaps$$$ creatures of illusion as we are$$$ it calls for confidence in oneself. Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality$$$ which is yet so invaluable$$$ most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself. By feeling that one has some innate superiority-- it may be wealth$$$ or rank$$$ a straight nose$$$ or the portrait of a grandfather by Romney-- for there is no end to the pathetic devices of the human imagination-- over other people.