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The Mean man will be deficient in every case, and even where he

has spent the most he will spoil the whole effect for want of

some trifle; he is procrastinating in all he does, and contrives

how he may spend the least, and does even that with lamentations

about the expense, and thinking that he does all things on a

greater scale than he ought.

Of course, both these states are faulty, but they do not involve

disgrace because they are neither hurtful to others nor very

unseemly.

Chapter IV.

The very name of Great-mindedness implies, that great things are

its object-matter; and we will first settle what kind of things.

It makes no difference, of course, whether we regard the moral

state in the abstract or as exemplified in an individual.