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Rh considered to be an echo of the Sermon on the Mount. We can only say that Tiruvalluvar's appeal is vast as 'the general air' and every religionist finds in it an echo of his own faith, while none feels offended.

As a moralist Tiruvalluvar claims a pre. eminent place in world literature. In laying down morals, he was not thinking of just the Tamils of his own time but of all eternal mankind. He set aside the narrow views of moral philosophers who lay down rules for a particular society professing a particular faith at a particular time. Throughout the 'Kural' we can find 'lofty, humane ideas' and a few are quoted here: