(2) Of RECEIVING: We are to reserve to ourselves such use of our own,

as may be most advantageous to, or at least consistent with, the good
of others
(2) Of RECEIVING: We are to reserve to ourselves such use of our own,
as may be most advantageous to, or at least consistent with, the good
of others. Hence the obligation or the virtues pertaining to the
various branches of a limited Self-Love, (_a_) with regard to our
_essential parts_, viz., Mind and Body--_Temperance_ in the natural
desires concerned in the preservation of the individual and the
species; (_b_) with regard to _goods of fortune--Modesty, Humility, and
Magnanimity_.


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It is well that this is so; for to be unable to escape from the great

mass of minutiae and unimportant detail in one"s past would be
intolerable, and would so cumber the mind with useless rubbish as to
destroy its usefulness
It is well that this is so; for to be unable to escape from the great
mass of minutiae and unimportant detail in one"s past would be
intolerable, and would so cumber the mind with useless rubbish as to
destroy its usefulness. We have surely all had some experience with the
type of persons whose associations are so complete and impartial that
all their conversation teems with unessential and irrelevant details.
They cannot recount the simplest incident in its essential points but,
slaves to literalness, make themselves insufferable bores by entering
upon every lane and by-path of circumstance that leads nowhere and
matters not the least in their story. Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot,
Shakespeare, and many other writers have seized upon such characters and
made use of them for their comic effect. James, in illustrating this
mental type, has quoted the following from Miss Austen"s 'Emma':


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