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---- knows not in what rank to place himself, 43

---- cannot bear to be despised, 42

---- vileness of, in that he submits himself to the brutes, 44

---- neither angel nor brute, 45

---- should know his greatness and his vileness, but not one without the other yet is contrary to God, 45

---- is only a reed, but a reed which thinks, 46

---- has fallen from a better nature, 47

---- whole dignity of, lies in thought, 48

---- what he should desire, 48

---- is ignorant of true justice, 61

---- is incapable of truth and of goodness, 66

---- is full of wants, and cares only for those who can satisfy them, 75

---- the honourable, 75

---- is not a necessary being, 76

---- automatic as well as intellectual, 77

---- only disguise, falsehood, and hypocrisy, 87

---- his defects and his incapacity, 106

---- that he has fallen from his former state, 108

---- is full of matters which take him out of self, 113

---- ordinary life of, like that of the saints, 161

---- can be happy only in loving God and in union with him, 179

---- moral diseases of, 181

---- isolation, blindness, and misery of, 183

---- double nature of, 185

---- should know his defects, and esteem that religion which promises precious remedies, 185

---- should conform his sentiments to religion, 186

---- his two states of grace and corruption proved from Scripture, 191

---- his dignity while innocent and now, 194

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