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1 He who rightly realizes, that all things follow from 2 the necessity of the divine nature, and come to pass in 3 accordance with the eternal laws and rules of nature, will not 4 find anything worthy of hatred, derision, or contempt, nor will 5 he bestow pity on anything, but to the utmost extent of human 6 virtue he will endeavour to do well, as the saying is, and to 7 rejoice. We may add, that he, who is easily touched with 8 compassion, and is moved by another's sorrow or tears, often does 9 something which he afterwards regrets; partly because we can 10 never be sure that an action caused by emotion is good, partly 11 because we are easily deceived by false tears. I am in this 12 place expressly speaking of a man living under the guidance of 13 reason. He who is moved to help others neither by reason nor by 14 compassion, is rightly styled inhuman, for (III. xxvii.) he seems 15 unlike a man. 16 17