BOOK III PART III
No one, who duly considers of this matter,
will make any scruple of allowing, that any
piece of in-breeding, or any expression of pride
and haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely
because it shocks our own pride, and leads us
by sympathy into a comparison, which causes
the disagreeable passion of humility. Now as
an insolence of this kind is blamed even in
a person who has always been civil to our-
selves in particular; nay, in one, whose name
is only known to us in history; it follows, that
our disapprobation proceeds from a sympathy
with others, and from the reflection, that such
a character is highly displeasing and odious
to every one, who converses or has any inter-
course with the person possest of it. We sym-
pathize with those people in their uneasiness;
and as their uneasiness proceeds in part from
a sympathy with the person who insults them,