nobility

"Transposition: we believe we are rising because while keeping the same base inclinations (for instance; the desire to triumph over others) we have given them a noble object.

We should, on the contrary, rise by attaching noble inclinations to lowly objects."

We permit our imagination to determine what is noble by relative objectification. In all that is relative we can only put ourselves in the middle. Let us remove our rule and hold all things up to the perfect rule (detached, holy, and separate). Nobility is not a conscious act, for the virtuous man must not know he is virtuous.

(more on this later I am sure)