The Basis of Morality by Part 3 Chapter 7 Page 10

que entre el ver

Padecer y el padecer

Ninguna distancia habia.

(No Siempre lo Peor es Cierto. Jorn. II., Esc. 9.)

This, however, presupposes that to a certain extent I have become identified with the other, and consequently that the barrier between the ego and the non-ego is, for the moment, broken down. It is then, and then only, that I make his interests, his need, his distress, his suffering directly my own; it is then that the empirical picture I have of him vanishes, and I no longer see the stranger, who is entirely unlike myself, and to whom I am indifferent; but I share his pain in him, despite the certainty that his skin does not enclose my nerves. Only in this way is it possible for his woe, his