There may have been a time when Romish plotters had a bet with their allies in Britain over who eradicated their assigned enemy first. Most people are aware of 'Flagellants' and Holocaust or Inquisitions against heretical Jews. There are few who know Irish were almost successfully eliminated and had disappeared into bogs so English couldn't find them. The Mayans did same thing with Spanish and no doubt lots of others have sought to blend in with environment in order to avoid such persecution by becoming 'conversos' in public. Bede was probably not first (Eusebius and others were re-writing and plagiarizing) English historian to jump all over Irish. Hume was a great historian in this tradition of debauched prejudice too. Here is a letter from him congratulating another conspirator in this continuing plot.

"I see you entertain a great doubt with regard to authenticity of poems of Ossian. You are certainly right in so doing. It is indeed strange that any men of sense could have imagined it possible, that above twenty thousand verses along with numberless historical, could have been preserved by oral tradition {Lies on paper are more easily maintained or referred back to.} during fifty generations, by rudest, perhaps of all European nations, most necessitous, most turbulent, and most unsettled. Where a supposition is so contrary to common sense, any positive evidence of it ought never to be regarded. Men run with great avidity to give their evidence in favour of what flatters their passions and their national prejudices. You are therefore over and above indulgent to us in speaking of matter with hesitation." (2)

Yes, ego of men and their need to flatter their national prejudices are a fact of life, and not just with 'verbal tradition'. In many ways ancient egalitarian peoples had less political and social reasons to lie, and they supported equality between all people. The Englishman who wrote this could be one of those arrogant even shockingly self-centered blankity-blanks who think God is his right hand man. The author of this letter was regarded by Edward Gibbon (who wrote 'Decline and Fall of Roman Empire') as England's greatest historian. He is David Hume and his intellectual progeny and fallout are directly connected to far less but just as influentially prejudicial words of great Encyclopedia. This letter is a masterwork of insipid prejudice and a deceit of monumental proportions.

We know for a fact that Hume is speaking kind of vile invective that allowed Gibbon's friend Lord Sheffield to benefit so much from rape of Ireland. Sheffield was a paid off absentee landowner and key political player in Britain's impoverishment of Ireland. This buying of support by giving lands in other nations claimed by 'Divine' or other debatable 'Right' has a long history in European monarchistic management. These authors of hatred and war, prejudice and ignorance, have unclean hands and obvious conflicts of interest. They were called cause of Rwandan genocide of last decade in lock-step and clear order as Number one and two criminals. Number one was Catholic Church and then Anglican. They are not separate from their government or secular authority as recent Canadian court awards make evident. The Catholic request for government to make payment with them for billions they owe Indians or insurance companies government works with that are paying up are all part of menagerie.

Sein Fein was name of a cultural revival newspaper and society began by Prof. MacManus and others. Now it is a guerilla or terrorist organization. Why do Irish fight amongst themselves and believe in Catholicism (south or Eire) that practices same usages as English Anglican Church? Why is Protestant North that feigns to abhor those usages engaged in fighting for English? The English gave them their land and brought them there from Scotland, while making trade and taxation deals with them to ensure they remained loyal and prospered. Is church promoting hatred and divisiveness? Sure it isn't engaged in secular matters, what with separation of church and state and all that kind of fiction!

The act of giving enhances narcissist's sense of omnipotence, his fantastic grandiosity, and contempt he holds for others. It is easy to feel superior to supplicating recipients of one's largesse. Narcissistic altruism is about exerting control and maintaining it by fostering dependence in beneficiaries.

But narcissists give for other reasons as well.

The narcissist flaunts his charitable nature as a bait. He impresses others with his selflessness and kindness and thus lures them into his lair, entraps them, and manipulates and brainwashes them into subservient compliance and obsequious collaboration. People are attracted to narcissist's larger than life posture – only to discover his true personality traits when it is far too late. "Give a little to take a lot" – is narcissist's creed.