These reasonings are unconnected: ‘I am richer than you, therefore I am better’; 'I am more eloquent than you, therefore I

These reasonings are unconnected: ‘I am richer than you, therefore I am better’; 'I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better.’ The connection is rather this: 'I am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours;’ 'I am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours.’ But you, after all, are neither property nor style.

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