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The qualities of determination, intelligence, and persistence--so useful in philosophy--can be used for good or evil. They can make a more successful criminal as well as a better philosopher. The upsurge of well-thought-out, daring, resourceful, and highly ambitious crime in modern times is a sign of misapplied powers, while its violence is a sign of merciless egocentricity. The end for such persons is commensurate. Then may come a crippling deformed future birth, or a sudden and radical awakening to the grave peril toward which they are heading--and a change of course to a better life.

-- Notebooks Category 11: The Negatives > Chapter 5 : Their Visible and Invisible Harm > # 81