DOBU 159 behaviour at the taking of life in attempted suicide, but it makes it clear that the appeal in both cases is not to be pity and support even of one's relatives. Rather, in the extremity of humiliation, the Dobuan projects upon him- self and his possessions the maliciousness and the will to destroy which are required in all his institutions. He is limited to the same technique, though he uses it in these instances against himself. Life in Dobu fosters extreme forms of animosity and malignancy which most societies have minimized by their institutions. Dobuan institutions, on the other hand, exalt them to the highest degree. The Dobuan lives out without repression man's worst nightmares of the ill-will of the universe, and according to his view of life virtue consists in selecting a victim upon whom he can vent the malignancy he attributes alike to human society and to the powers of nature. All existence appears to him as a cut- throat struggle in which deadly antagonists are pitted against one another in a contest for each one of the goods of life. Suspicion and cruelty are his trusted weapons in the strife and he gives no mercy, as he asks none.