egoistic as soon as it is anything other than the purely objective desire of simply knowing, without any ulterior purpose, that my neighbour is helped, delivered from his distress and need, or freed from his suffering. If such an aim — shorn, as it is, of all subjectivity — be really mine, then, and then only, have I given proof of that loving-kindness, caritas, ???p?, which it is the great and distinguishing merit of Christianity to have preached. It should be observed, in this connection, that the injunctions which the Gospel adds to its commandment of love, e.g., �? ???t? ? ???ste?a s??, t? p??e? ? de??? s?? (let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth), and the like, are, in point of fact, based on a consciousness of the conclusion I have here reached, — namely, that another's distress, of itself alone, without any