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Presumption is our natural and original disease. The most wretched and frail of all creatures is man, and the proudest. He sees himself lodged in the dirt and filth of the world, nailed and riveted to the worst part of the universe, and yet in his imagination will be placing himself above the circle of the moon, and bringing heaven under his feet.

It is by the vanity of the same imagination that he equals himself to God; attributes to himself divine qualities, withdraws and separates himself from the crowd of other creatures, cuts out the shares of animals and distributes to them such portion of faculties and force as himself thinks fit.

All that seems strange to us and that we do not understand, we condemn. The same thing happened also in the judgment we make of beasts; they have several conditions like to ours; from those we may by comparison draw some conjecture: but those qualities which are particular to themselves, how know we what to make of them.

Question 196

In this passage, 'presumption' means


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