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National Vanity and Prejudice

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 25, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 8.

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National Vanity and Prejudice

THERE is scarce any folly or vice more epidemic among the sons of men than that ridiculous and hurtful vanity by which the people of each country are apt to prefer themselves to those of every other, and to make their own customs and manners and opinions the standard of right and wrong, of true and false. The Chinese mandarins were strongly surprised and almost incredulous when the Jesuits showed them how small a figure their empire made in the general map of the world.—Lord Bolingbroke.