This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt: ...career by its natural antagonist. Even when all opposition has appeared at an end, and the rival power seemed prostrate in the dust, it has suddenly risen with renewed energies, like the Giant from his mother Earth. The chains intended to bind the fallen have now been transferred to other hands, the hands of those by ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt: ...career by its natural antagonist. Even when all opposition has appeared at an end, and the rival power seemed prostrate in the dust, it has suddenly risen with renewed energies, like the Giant from his mother Earth. The chains intended to bind the fallen have now been transferred to other hands, the hands of those by whom they were fabricated. The victim of yesterday has become the conqueror of to-day; and the more complete the former subjection, the less disputed the present supremacy. Still, the newly vanquished is not slain, but bending beneath the passing storm, awaits in patience a better day. The harmony of the moral, as of the physical world, is the result of opposing forces. What, then, are those forces which here are called into action? If the tendencies be universal, so must the causes from which they proceed; and, where man is concerned, these can be found in the mind alone. Now, of those affections which appear with the dawn of reason and never quit us till the grave, none appears more indisputable than love of Superiority. Akin to this, nay, almost identical, is dislike to Inferiority. These, like all our passions, take their origin in certain pleasures and pains which the Author of Nature has attached to our very being. The feeling of superiority is universally agreeable, that of inferiority the reverse; and hence whatever tends to the former we love, whatever leads to the latter we hate. One of these passions necessarily supposes the other, for how can we like superiority without disliking inferiority? If we cannot raise ourselves above other men, let us not, at all events, sink below them: if we cannot be distinguished, let us not be debased. But however allied they may be, the effects of these two passions are widely different. The former p...
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