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The scales of comparison by which superiority equality & inferiority
may be measured, embrace necessarily a great variety of topics
and may be classified under the head of qualities which distinguish
one man's situation from another, – or under those situations
themselves. Qualities useful to self – qualities useful to
others. Qualities natural – qualities acquired & these again
divided into those the qualities which are acquirable by a man's own exertions
alone, & not acquirable except with the concurrence of others – qualities again also of the body, – & qualities of the mind.

In the possession of each or all of these almost every man is in some
way distinguished from every other man. The amount of these qualities
may be the same in the cases of different individuals but their
distribution is never so – and a great portion of the charm of social
intercourse grows out of the infinite variety with distinctions by which these self varied
elements exist in different persons. A man may be distinguished
from another by his wisdom on general topics – by an all
pervading accuracy of judgment – or by a wisdom peculiar to
certain determinate objects. A man may be characterised, though
very rarely by universal knowledge – but in nine hundred cases
or more, out of a thousand it will be his devotion to & acquirements in
some particular branch of study that denote his superiority over any man – or over men in general. So in that more vague
dependence which may be called the dependence of expectation
an inferior may anticipate good from a superior growing out of any one
of the qualities spoken of, or of any one of the
various branches of those qualities.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	459	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f144
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	5675
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