COMMENTS ON "THE DISCOVERY OF THE SPONTANEOUS MAN"

Abstract

To Read Bain: 1) Every child "is" the center of the world, by the nature of his existence, from the moment of birth on, whether he develops in the course of aging mental "expectations" for being it or not. 2) Megalomania is a universal phenomenon. It is common among children, indeed, among all animate beings. There is a variety of existential grandeur which can be called "vegetative" megalomania; lions, tigers, elephants, wolves and buffaloes of the animal kingdom are illustrations of it. The "little ones" among the animals and the human people are no exception. Often, the littler they are, the more brazen their megalomania