soul out of night into the morning, and out of gloom, out of “affliction” into clearness, brightness, depth, and refinement: — just as much as such a tendency DISTINGUISHES — it is a noble tendency — it also SEPARATES. — The pity of the saint is pity for the FILTH of the human, all-too-human.

And there are grades and heights where pity itself is regarded by him as impurity, as filth.

272. Signs of nobility: never to think of lowering our duties to the rank of duties for everybody; to be unwilling to renounce or to share our responsibilities; to count our prerogatives, and the exercise of them, among our DUTIES.

273. A man who strives after great things, looks upon every one whom he encounters on his way either as a means of advance, or a delay and hindrance —