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The Ego and His Own is not an exact English equivalent of
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But then, there is no exact English equivalent. Perhaps the nearest is
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The Unique One and His Property. But the unique one is not strictly the _Einzige_, for uniqueness connotes not only singleness but an admirable singleness, while Stirner's _Einzigkeit_ is admirable in his eyes only as such, it being no part of the purpose of his book to distinguish a particular _Einzigkeit_ as more excellent than another. Moreover,
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The Unique One and His Property has no graces to compel our forgiveness of its slight inaccuracy. It is clumsy and unattractive. And the same objections may be urged with still greater force against all the other renderings that have been suggested,--
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The Single One and His Property,
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The Only One and His Property,
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The Lone One and His Property,
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The Unit and His Property, and, last and least and worst,
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The Individual and His Prerogative.
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The Ego and His Own, on the other hand, if not a precise rendering, is at least an excellent title in itself; excellent by its euphony, its monosyllabic incisiveness, and its telling--_Einzigkeit_. Another strong argument in its favor is the emphatic correspondence of the phrase
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with Mr. Byington's renderings of the kindred words, _Eigenheit_ and _Eigner_. Moreover, no reader will be led astray who bears in mind Stirner's distinction:
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I am not an ego along with other egos, but the sole ego; I am unique.