How to be happy though human / by W. Béran Wolfe.
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newspaper clippings, and the like. His death was like his life, due to a cancer of the stomach which he refused to allow a great surgeon to remove because the surgeon demanded a fee reasonably commensurate with the man’s great wealth. Where organic inferiorities exist, one usually finds functional inferiorities of the sexual organs, and a man’s attempt to compensate for these sexual inferiorities often gives us the key to the existence of his inferiority complex. It is probable that the great “ sexual athletes ” of history, Don Juan, Messalina, Casanova, and others like them, suffered from a sense of sexual inferiority, and therefore devoted their entire lives to the compensations of this feeling. Certainly this was the case with J. J. Rousseau whose Autobiography is a textbook of useful and useless compensations of an inferiority complex based on sexual phenomena. How can social, familial, economic, religious sources of inferiority be compensated ? The multiplicity of occupa¬ tions offered by modern civilization has a place for all these. Dr. Norman Haire writes that he was the youngest of eleven children, and was denied the educational advantages of his elder brothers and sisters because his father suddenly became impoverished. He devoted his life to the amelioration of the condition of unwanted children by becoming a champion of the birth control movement. The greatest social reformers have been individuals who have felt the pinch of poverty and have lived the lives of the poorer classes. The best educators of all time were neglected children. Pestalozzi, who put reading and writing within the reach of every schoolchild and did more to remove illiteracy from the world than any other single individual, was a poor, ill-treated, and hungry orphan who translated his own thirst for know¬ ledge, love, and companionship into the basic laws of modern education. Eldest children often find the best compensation for their familial position in the more conservative pro¬ fessions. They make splendid historians, jurists,