The geriatric crowd had never hatched a single al- truistic thought among themselves-and likely never would.

"I mean that we thought we were being aided by al- truistic members of the Retired Order, benevolently help- ing us elude persecutors in.

Yes, this is asking for a double portion of your soul's flesh, Helva, but I have an al- truistic reason for asking you to return there.

It is to be done by 'the development of a 'theory' or 'hypothesis'that yields valid and meaningful (i.e. not truistic) predictions about phenomena not yet observed'.