Privatim vs. Generatim

I -- do I come to myself and mine through liberalism? Whom does the liberal look upon as his equal? Man! Be only man -- and that you are anyway -- and the liberal calls you his brother. He asks very little about your private opinions and private follies, if only he can espy "Man" in you.

But, as he takes little heed of what you are privatim -- nay, in a strict following out of his principle sets no value at all on it -- he sees in you only what you are generatim. In other words, he sees in you, not you, but the species; not Tom or Jim, but Man; not the real or unique one, but your essence or your concept; not the bodily man, but the spirit.