- around 1.1 on the tone scale we reach the level of covert hostility. Here the
hatred of the individual has been socially and individually censured to a point where it
has been suppressed, and the individual no longer dares demonstrate hate as such. He yet
possesses sufficient energy to express some feeling on the matter, and so what hatred he
feels comes forth covertly. All manner of subterfuges may be resorted to. The
person may claim to love others and o have the good of others as his foremost interest;
yet, at the same moment, he works, unconsciously or otherwise, to injure or destroy the
lives and reputations of people and also to destroy property. (SOS, p. 56)
