Show from chambers chamberss edinburg journal pride offensive and defensive the french have two words to express pride la alerte and LOr longueil guell A lady being asked to define the difference replied very promptly and happily that the first was defensive and the por tant of the first it is hi in second offensive pride the distinctions distinct ionis ionia impossible to have too much ch of the second it is equally impossible to have too little defensive Defens ive ire pride is that proper self respect which will not allow its possessor to commit an unworthy a base or a mean action it is that which w aich keeps us from making friends and companions 0 of f the vicious the dishonest and the disreputable jl it is that which urges HS us to distinguish ourselves above the crowd of the id lethe ignorant the dilatory and the variable by our industry our wisdom our perseverance ana and and our constancy and which prompts us to win the applause of our fellows by our goodness and consequent greatness IV eat defensive Deren sive pride is the shield with which we keep oss off the assaults of those who openly or insidiously would bring us down to a lower moral level than our judgment and our conscience inform us we ought to hold it is the amulet with which we preserve ourselves from the machinations of evil and the pe perfume by aid of which we may walk amid the haunts of vice without contamination without a due proportion of pride like this ii some one of its various developments no man yet has ever arrived at distinction or left behind him a name which the world holds in honor lionor it is the nurse of emulation and like then the antagonism of which we spoke III in a previous article becomes when properly or opportunely excited the spur to urge the timid or the sluggish to do the good which another has left undone the steel upon some eoma flinty nature eliciting heat beat and light which might otherwise have remained latent for everd everl ever pride of this kind sits as well upon the humblest as upon the lof iest it is the pride of a man independent of his rank his wealth or his station the pride of the gold and not of the stamp upon it pride of this kind has lias found its most poetical and at the same time lime its best and truest utterance in the song of robert burns A mans a man for a that every one who feels his heart bear t glow at the sentiments expressed in that glorious lyric feels defensive feri fert sive pride and if he lie continues to feel it annj and makes it the guide of his life he becomes though ho he toil all day and far into the night for hard and scanty bread though lie he wear hodden gray and dwell in a hut scarcely sc arcel y sheltered from the winds and rains of heaven an ornament tv to his kind hind and a blessing t to 0 himself offensive pride on the other hand shows the tho little mil mii mizidas idas das defensive pride exhibits the great one it is the pride of externals as defensive pride is that of inter later internals nals the pride orthe of the adventitious circumstances cum stances in which a man in in is placed and not of the qualities of the man himself off offensive sive give pride prida assumes various forms and is in eal eai all bli I 1 of them equally a proof of ignorance presumption and I 1 to the man of sense it is always ridiculous and wherever it does not excite he the auger anger it ia is sure to excite the tha contempt of the we well minded when we see a man proud of his high lineage and find expecting that we shall do homage to him for the virtues of his ancestors although at hough he havo hava none of his own we despise him all the more for the highness of his name his pride and his lordly airs aira gall us if we are of stern nature and provoke us u to laughter if we are of the number of those who can find amusement iu in the contemplation of human folly proud men of this class have been happily compared to turnips and potatoes all the alq best part of them is under grorud grousd equally ua y if not more offensive is the pride of wealth this tilis pride is the parent of every meanness we may be quite sure when we see a man proud of his money that he has gained it in a dirty manner and that lie makes really thought not perhaps visibly to all mens eyes a dirty use of it if he have a large house it is not for uso use but for ostentation iffie if he have fine carriages c a valuable horses and fo foltmer foot otmer meri morg in gay li venies veries it is that lie he may excite more imore attention from the frivolous and unthinking thinking than some som e otio one ono else who has hitherto ri him if he give splendid entertainments it is that he may make the earls or the barons who condescend or the poor dependents who fawn and cringe to appear at them envious of the wealth which their own can never equal if he give charity it is that it may be blazoned abroad for he will refuse fi give five ve gu guineas ineas lueas to a deserving 1 object if the donation is to remain secret when he would give a hundred to a less deserving one if the fact could be trumpeted in the newspapers such a man pays for the publication offis of his hig charitable deeds and not only does not hide from his left hand what his right hand does but fees the common crier of the streets to promulgate it with embellishments such a man is not proud of being charitable but of being thought so not thankful for wealth because it enables him film to do good but proud of I 1 it t because it gives him the means of attracting more worldly attention than better men and enables him to ride and drink wine when superior merit walks can only amford afford small beer there is also a pride of beauty a pride of strength a pride of ehll skill and a pride of talent which a all I 1 become offensive if the they y are loudly expressed and are unsupported by othar qualities which it is the tiie province of a defensive pride to foster in the mind when a woman is poud proud of her b beauty eau ty and has neither wit nor senses sense nor good nature nor any charm of mind that will endure when beauty fades her pride ia is offensive WI when en a man is proud of his physical strength and acts he glan giant tand and has no mental strength nor thinks it worth the cultivation his pride is offensive when another vaunts daunts his skill in any particular pursuit a eikill which may be undoubted eusted and thrusts it inopportunely and forward his pride is offensive and when a man who wiio has gained some credit for talent is always fearful that he will lose it unless ha he daily and hourly impresses the recollection of it upon those thosa with whom ha may be brought in little talent only and not of a contact his pride is offensive and is that of a great one combined on the contrary with defensive ani not with offen yve pride beauty strength I 1 skill and talent become enhanced in our eyes beauty then knows and acts upon the knowledge that goodness will lend land her additional charms physical strength learns not lo 10 ba b proud merel merely y of thai that which it has in common with the brutes but to be strong in mind and skill and dent conscious that self praise ia is no recommendation to the world resolve to win the worlie wor iii lil appi appl applause ause duse by future good deeds and not by boasting vaingloriously of the deeds that are past there is another great diffie difference rence between defensive and oten oTon offensive sive pride which is that while the one invariably keeps its thoughts to itself the other as invariably shouts them into all mens ren wen ears defensive pride never makes a boast but offensive pride is never easy but when the boast is on its tongue the one is silent the other is loquacious defensive pride is retiring offensive pride is forward and the one lives upon the rewards of conscience while the other only exists mists upon the babble of the crowd there are other kinds of pride which are as offensive as those already mentioned we would cite especially insensitive sensitive pride and the pride that apes humi huml humility ity 1 sensitive pride is 13 founded not upon a proper self respect but upon inordinate vanity linked with some degree of cowardice if it has taken root in the breast branst of a poor man or ong ona of inferior station in society it leads him to lm imagine aIne alne insults from the rich and the lofty whichard which chare are not intended aud and to suppose that thit al the world are lire thinking how liow they can show him disrespect when in faal act the world ia is not div giving irla 9 itself the slightest concern about him but t this 1 truth never enters int into 0 his mind fo for r if it did he would be still more miserable llis ilia consolation is that lle ile lie he world hats hates b him m and tries to trample him down and he flies flips to that rather than to the thought annihilating to li s vanity and self conceit that the world most like ilke I 1 y does not even know of his existence jn aan a rich or powerful man this pride generally aprin sprin springs from some defect physical or moral but most often from the former as in the case casa of lord byron and his lameness upon this point his hia pride was ridiculously sensitive and offensive and laid bare tha 0 weaknesses of his mental constitution a vanity pained to be conscious of a physical deformity which rendered him less perfect than the tha md most st perfect of his fellow creatures and a cowardice that prevented him from rising superior to the possible sneers of or the tho thoughtless boht baht battless less or unfeeling 0 of f the pride that apes humility it may be truly said that it is 19 of all kinds of pride the most offensive in addition to the bad quil lieb liea inherent ina lna in a false and u unfounded neou estimate of self it possesses that of hypocrisy and no junction can be more odious than that of hypocrisy and pride foolish pride may off send offend but hypocritical pride offends and disgusts us the tho pride of powers power of beauty I 1 or of talent though they may be unjustifiable at least lean upon something that exists or is supposed to exist but the pride that apes hamili humility 1 ians liana upon a lie which it knows to be a lie it t elites wiltes the bad qualities of every other kind of pride and is in a manner the concentrated essence of |