3p27c3d.md (425B)
1 That, which painfully affects the object of our pity, affects us also with 2 similar pain (by the foregoing proposition); therefore, we shall endeavour to 3 recall everything which removes its existence, or which destroys it (cf. III. 4 xiii.); in other words (III. ix. note), we shall desire to destroy it, or we 5 shall be determined for its destruction; thus, we shall endeavour to free from 6 misery a thing which we pity. Q.E.D. 7 8