He wants wealth, knowledge, power and pleasures. He is driven by his greed, his ambition, his curiosity and his sexual appetite. But he finds himself in an environment always indifferent, sometimes hostile. He quickly realizes that he must fight for what he wants. His mode of reaction to his social surroundings depends on his specific constitution.
Some people become accommodated to the world by conquering it, others by escaping from it.
Still others refuse to accept its rules. The passion for conquest assumes diverse aspects according to individuals and circumstances. It inspires great adventures. But it drives the modern human being to robbery, to murder, and to the great financial and economic enterprises characterizing our civilization. But its impulse also builds hospitals, laboratories, universities and churches.