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Rh feeling for each other. By theſe means we improve one another; but there is no real inferiority.

You have read the fable of the head ſuppoſing itſelf ſuperior to the reſt of the members, though all are equally neceſſary to the ſupport of life. If I behave improperly to ſervants, I am really their inferior, as I abuſe a truſt, and imitate not the Being, whose ſervant I am, without a ſhadow of equality. Children are helpleſs. I order my ſervants to wait on you, becauſe you are ſo; but I have not as much reſpect for you as for them; you may poſſibly become a virtuous character.—Many of my ſervants are really ſo already; they have done their duty, filled an humble ſtation, as they ought to fill it, conſcientiouſly. And do you dare to deſpiſe thoſe whom your Creator approves?

Before the greateſt earthly beings I ſhould not be awed, they are my fellow ſervants; and, though ſuperior in rank, which, like perſonal beauty, only dazzles the vulgar; yet I may poſſeſs more knowledge and Rh