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HE trusting, as a general rule, are the trustworthy. Those who "think no evil" are usually those who least deserve that evil should be thought of them. Ignorant of heart-treason, never looking for wrong from others because never doing wrong to others, never doubting because never deceiving, trustfulness is inherent in their natures.

Suspicion that vaguely roams abroad is the offspring of Deception, hidden in the generating warmth of our own hearts at home. An unconscious judging of others by ourselves, a measuring by our own height, and coloring by our own complexion, actuate the whole universe. There are no foibles which we so quickly detect in the concealed depths of other spirits as those with which our eyes are most familiar when their mental vision is turned inward.

Lavater warns us to "shun the man who never laughs, who dislikes music and the glad face of a child." The counsel implies that mirth, and harmony, and innocence are strangers to such a being.