ignoring their feelings.__

__The aim of the sinless One lies in not doing evil unto those
who have done evil unto him.__

__If a man causes suffering even to those who hate him without
any reason, he will ultimately have grief not to be overcome.__

__The punishment of evil doers consists in making them feel
ashamed of themselves by doing them a great kindness.__

__Of what use is superior knowledge in the one, if he does not
endeavour to relieve his neighbour's want as much as his own?__

__If, in the morning, a man wishes to do evil unto another, in
the evening the evil will return to him.__

THE HINDU KURAL.


Thus it went on everywhere. The recognition that love represents
the highest morality was nowhere denied or contradicted, but this
truth was so interwoven everywhere with all kinds of falsehoods
which distorted it, that finally nothing of it remained but
words. It was taught that this highest morality was only
applicable to private life--for home use, as it were--but that in
public life all forms of violence--such as imprisonment,
executions, and wars--might be used for the protection of the
majority against a minority of evildoers, though such means were
diametrically opposed to any vestige of love. And though common