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Im out an ordinary philanthropist, or ranked him as an altruist with the
scientific and sentimental. But he was really neither one nor the other.
Pity he has, of course, for the poor, for those who are shut up in
prisons, for the lowly, for the wretched; but he has far more pity for
the rich, for the hard hedonists, for those who waste their freedom in
becoming slaves to things, for those who wear soft raiment and live in
kings' houses. Riches and pleasure seemed to him to be really greater
tragedies than poverty or sorrow. And as for altruism, who knew better
than he that it is vocation not volition that determines us, and that
one cannot gather grapes of thorns or figs from thistles? To live for
others as a definite self-conscious aim was not his creed. It was not
the basis of his creed. When he says, 'Forgive your enemies,'
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