The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, Vol. 75: For April and July, 1842 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, Vol. 75: For April and July, 1842Pride has generally been supposed to be inconsistent with vanity. It is certain. That the same person seldom exhibits both on the same subject. To be the object of admiration is pleasing, partly in itself, and partly as an evidence of the posses sion of certain qualities; and, in both cases, the pleasure depends greatly on our estimate of the admirer. As all esti mation is relative, the higher we place ourselves the lower we must place all others, and the lower must be our value for their opinion. It follows that a per son who thinks very highly of himself is generally careless of the Opinions of others he does not want their evidence, and he considers them as his inferiors. England, therefore, believing herself to be clearly the first nation in the world, is naturally indifferent to the testimony of others to a truth which she holds to be obvious.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.