When a group of earnest and devout believers meet together for special intercession and worship, we do not tax them with selfishness if they exclude unbelievers.
Nor do we call people who are really devoted to music selfish if, coming together for this, they make a special point of excluding the unmusical.
Nor again would the imputation of selfishness lie against members of a club for blackballing a candidate who would, they feel, be uncongenial.
Nor should we regard it as an act of selfishness if the members of a family circle, or of the same nation, or of any social circle, desired to come together quite by themselves.
Nor yet would the term selfish apply to an East End music hall audience when they eject any one who belongs to a different social class to themselves and wears good clothes.
And the like would hold true of servants resenting their employers intruding upon them in their hours of leisure or entertainments.
