single authority in favour of my position; but outside, I have other testimony to cite, in addition to Rousseau's. The Chinese admit five cardinal virtues (Tschang), of which the chief is Compassion (Sin). The other four are: justice, courtesy, wisdom, and sincerity. Similarly, among the Hindus, we find that on the tablets placed to the memory of dead chieftains, compassion for men and animals takes the first place in the record of their virtues. At Athens there was an altar to Compassion in the Agora, as we know from Pausanias, I. 17: ????a???? d? ?? t? ????? ?st? ????? �?�??, ?, �???sta ?e?? ?? ?????p???? �??? ?a? �eta�???? p?a?�?t?? ?t? ?-????�??, �???? t?�?? ??????? ??�??s?? ????????.

Lucian also mentions this altar in the Timon, � 99. A phrase of Phocion, preserved by Stobaeus, describes Compassion as