Show Sketch SI etch for forthe the Cloudwalker k r J JY BY Y T SHELLEY S TT BUTTON EGOTISM E Is the glorification of se The h egotist is a a self son who ho conceives of no eQua who ho acknowledges no superior spurns all al that he regards ted with wih inordinate vanity he lie dabbles out his existence in a vacuum ya of ideas coming to io no in realization realisation r a ton of his deficiencies to no comprehension of lis bloated blot nothingness and a to no nl knowledge of his mental obesity If you are arc an egotist If you u arc aro the unfortunate victim of an in n fn Inflated self opinion if you dare to consider your our insignificant carcass the embodiment ot of 0 divine perfections If it you think that Jat you YOU ae are the bone of contention between heaven heven and hell hel if you imagine ima Ine that your yo r etiolated soul sul is essential to mans mas happiness or to terrestrial harmony if Your our fancies fanes lead lead you ou on cloud d chases chae of conceit if your intolerable vanity and have placed you on an ll I pedestal of Importance orif you think your ou innate Innate talents talen entitle tte t you to a ta divine distinction you are the most pitiful of Gods Gds creation Egotism is akin to blasphemy It I is the te most mot deplorable of the t 1000 con on conditions ond d tons which are wrought by self or r r satan It I is the most unpardonable of ot sins for its is possessor can pardon no sin si aix in iii others other It is if i the most mos inexcusable for he lie can cn offer ofer no excuse for his bis fellows It I Is 1 th tha the most m mb f danou for tor be being beIng belag ing lag without t an inferiOr r its It possessor must tread trea upon his superiors superior being un unlovable unlovable lovable and with wih the to love 10 and nd to be l loved he lavishes juts his hearts affection upon himself being unconscious of his littleness lt n she he is governed by byno byno byno no sense sene of propriety and andi is subject to no fear The Th egotist is a a degenerate for he le e Is the victim of a a that permits of ot no progress he aspires to t no ideal Ide for for he be sees se in his own crais the unattained perfections of mankind higher qualities quale which he believes missing in others and he rests resh contented content 3 ere ore he has begun the first evolution His ps embrace em no truth recognizes in no other the substance of what is in himself him elt a shadow Likened to the mediocre he were w re as an ant an ax beside beide a monarch monarc measured against the earths dimensions he were ere as ns atom as a unit against the earths populace he were ere an an unknown fraction compared to t the un unbounded unbound unbounded bounded bound d vanes vastness ness of the te worlds visible to th the infinity of worlds invisible to o the Inconceivable illimitableness of time Ime nd ind space to the te awful nd Im Inn Immeasurable immeasurable measurable immensities of ot the universe fe becomes become even to the omniscient Creator Creat r a a a complete nonentity nonEt I S 1 When you are gloating and rubbing r bing i 3 ur hands In contemplation of i your exalted height when you are ac mediating md upon the heavenly importance Imp of your diminished diminished being when you u are InkIng flunking of your yOU celestial endowments and wonderful intelligence take 0 L few fe feuy days off iff anti and alu make comparisons con If It you are not already a hopeless case Ga e a c or two may save you It may ma cause you to seek your level Otherwise Other death is a certain leveler le High and low come to his equalizing clasp f Remember Remember of or the wealds v Ids population are superfluous and the superfluity the egotist inel suddenly and completely cOh annihilated annihilated the rest would still stilt live The un would continue to rise and set In in the 4 same old way the seasons would Orne and go just as they used to dp tip and the world would still wag on Perhaps ps you ou would not be lie e missed |