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We may indeed talk, for certain conveniences, as if the abstract scheme preceded, we may say 'I must go up stairs because of the essential aboveness, just as we may say that the man 'does prudent acts because of his ingrained prudence, or that our ideas 'lead us truly because of their intrinsic truth. But this should not debar us on other occasions from using completer forms of description.
Superiority equals aboveness, inferiority equals beneathness; sympathy equals the same feeling. To criticize is to "belittle" and to cause the feeling of littleness; to praise is "to make a man expand," to enlarge him. At the same time we are strangely affected by the condition of others.
Surely we have no right to oppose static essences in this way to the moving processes in which they live embedded. My bedroom is above my library. Does the 'aboveness' here mean aught that is different from the concrete spaces which have to be moved- through in getting from the one to the other?
It means, you may say, a pure topographic relation, a sort of architect's plan among the eternal essences. But that is not the full aboveness, it is only an abbreviated substitute that on occasion may lead my mind towards truer, i.e., fuller, dealings with the real aboveness. It is not an aboveness ante rem, it is a post rem extract from the aboveness in rebus.
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