His audience are evidently ready to accept him as an authority, and are flattered by being treated as capable of reason, not offended by any assumption of their intellectual inferiority.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
The servant maids felt her inferiority, for they were better treated; free to come and go, and regarded in their stations with much more respect.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
Throughout Japan Americans are well treated and any failure on the part of Americans at home to treat the Japanese with a like courtesy and consideration is by just so much a confession of inferiority in our civilization .
"History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6)"
E. Benjamin Andrews