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We shall now proceed to speak of Esteem and Contempt, of Self-respect and Humility, of Conceit and Culpable Humility. We shall take them in the above order, and try to distinguish accurately what is good and what is bad in them.
Esteem and Contempt are felt in so far as we know a thing to be something great or small, be this great or little thing in us or outside us.