Heavenly Doctrine (Tafel) n. 92

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92. A society is a neighbour more than an individual person, because it consists of many. Charity is to be practised towards it in the same manner as towards an individual person, namely, according to the quality of the good that prevails in it; wherefore it is to be practised in a totally different manner towards a society of upright persons than from what it is to a society of persons not upright. A society is loved when its good is cared for from the love of good.


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