(4) Boundless compassion for all living beings is the surest and most certain guarantee of pure moral conduct, and needs no casuistry.

Whoever is filled with it will assuredly injure no one, do harm to no one, encroach on no man's rights; he will rather have regard for every one, forgive every one, help every one as far as he can, and all his actions will bear the stamp of justice and loving-kindness. On the other hand, if we try to say: “This man is virtuous, but he is a stranger to Compassion”; or: “he is an unjust and malicious man, yet very compassionate;” the contradiction at once leaps to light. In former times the English plays used to finish with a petition for the King. The old Indian dramas close with these words: “May all living beings be delivered from pain.