Humility-Sublimity

“…the man who says This is sublime cannot mean I have sublime feelings.  Even if it were granted that such qualities as sublimity were simply and solely projected into things from our own emotions, yet the emotions which prompt the projection are the correlatives, and therefore almost the opposites, of the qualities projected.  The feelings which make a man call an object sublime are not sublime feelings but feelings of veneration.  If This is sublime is to be reduced at all to a statement about the speaker’s feelings, the proper translation would be I have humble feelings.”  (The Abolition of Man, p. 3)