Man has been reared by his errors: first he never saw himself other than imperfectly, second he attributed to himself imaginary qualities, third he felt himself in a false order of rank with animal and nature, fourth he continually invented new tables of values and for a time took each of them to be eternal and unconditional…If one deducts the effect of these four errors, one has also deducted away humanity, humaneness, and ‘human dignity’.

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