moral beings. But to you for a moment suppose that animals consider us to be moral beings? An animal, which could speak, has said: "Humanity is a prejudice we animals at least do not suffer from,"
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The charitable man.—The charitable man gratifies a natural desire of his heart when he confers his benefit on others. The stronger this desire is, the less he enters into the feelings of him who serves the purpose of gratifying this desire; he becomes indelicate and occasionally even offensive. (This applies to the charity and liberality of the Jews, which, as is well known, is somewhat more effusive than that of other nations.)
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That love may be felt as love.—We must be honest towards ourselves and thoroughly acquainted with our inmost hearts, so as to be able to practise upon others that humane dissimulation which is called love and kindliness.
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What we are capable of.—A man who had been provoked all day long by his degenerated and wicked son, slew him in the evening, and drawing a long breath, exclaimed to the rest of his family, "Now we can sleep
