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264 longer concede the point to him who was waiting for the seventh day and for rest to find all things in existence very beautiful—he had missed the right moment. —We sometimes meet a certain amount of false pretence in systematists: in trying to complete a system and round off its horizon, they have to endeavour to make their weaker qualities appear in the light of their stronger ones. They wish to personate complete and uniformly strong characters. —The purport of the rites of hospitality is to paralyse any hostile feeling in a stranger. As soon as we cease looking upon the stranger as upon our enemy, hospitality decreases; whereas it flourishes as long as its evil supposition prevails. —A very unusual and unsettled weather makes men suspicious, even of one another; at the same time they grow fond of innovations, having to part with their old habits. Wherefore despots fancy those regions where the weather is moral. —Innocent people are easy