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To be inferior is unpleasing, to be placed in a state of inferiority to those who are neither eminent from abilities, or merit increases the uneasiness, & [[underline]] every [[/underline]] person finds in himself a strong inclination to throw down from their superiority those whom he obeys [[deletion]] without [[/deletion]] without approbation, whom he reverences without esteem. When the passions are once in motion they are not easily appeased. -- He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance of power. - from which I conclude that where you owe respect it is wisest not to examine how far it
