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Deontology Theoretical 1. Theoretical
Ch. Pride & Vanity

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§. Relation of Pride and Vanity to Meanness and Humility.

In Practical Part. Deontology as applied to the relations
between superior and inferior: viz. in the several scales of opulence
power, and dignity, natural and factitious.

Meanness has for its opposite, not so much pride, as
the compound appellative elevation-of-mind. But in the use of all these words, there
is much indeterminativeness. Pride, separately taken is rather
dyslogistic: elevation of mind, decidedly eulogistic

So in regard to their opposites, humility is rather eulogistic,
meanness dyslogistic. But in these two cases there is no such exact relation
between opposites as that which has place between prudence and
imprudence, benevolence and malevolence, beneficence and maleficence.

If In the import attached to these words and the degree
of approbation or and disapprobation attached to the things signified by
them, religion — the Christian is apt to produce much wavering
and inconsistency. In the Christian there are two selves which
are continually at variance: the original man of the world, and
the religionist whom a Christian iduaction has fastened upon
his shoulders: the original natural man, who takes in the path of life has for his guide the law imaginary directive
which has for its sanction sanctionative appendage the popular or moral sanction, and
the engrafted factitious adsictitious man who in that same path, has taken the
under the skin
Bible, that is on each occasion some one or other of its substitutes — the interpretations
put upon it.

Thus on many occasions the same conduct which by the man of the world
would be termed meanness would by the man of Christ be
termed humility. But as the ideas respectively attached to these two
words are most conveniently indeterminate the man of the world
in his anxiety to avoid the reproach of meanness has receivies not when both
are
are inclosed in the
same , no great any
very troublesome annoyance
from any rep
from the man of Christ
on the score of a deficiency in the Christian virtue of humility.

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Date_1	1819-08-13	Marginal Summary Numbering
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