1865. As previously mentioned, the use of the animal law of the jungle is indeed a protection, a kind of act of mercy from the unintellectual animal that can help its sick companions or fellow beings in this way alone, but the human being is not an animal in its purest form. It is not unintellectual. It is not so poor or primitive that it does not have other sources of help with which it can show a far greater degree of mercy to beings that deviate from the flock. For this reason the use of the animal law of the jungle in any form whatsoever within the sphere of human beings is not natural, but is more or less an infringement of the fifth* commandment, "Thou shalt not kill", or the law of neighbourly love. That which for the animal is the observance of neighbourly love is thus an infringement of the same law for the human being. The animal cannot help or remedy the disability of its companions or fellow beings in any way other than by helping them to die. But the human being has a far more outstanding ability to help its severely disabled fellow beings. It can understand to a greater or lesser extent the nature of the disability, and subsequently contribute to alleviating the worst of its constraints or inconveniences. So, if the human being does not try to understand its sick fellow beings and does not make full use of its reason and ingenuity to try to help them, but blindly delivers them to all kinds of suffering, to the antipathy, slander and persecution of the flock, it acts against the laws of Nature. Its behaviour is therefore inferior to that of the animals. This low-psychic behaviour can therefore rightly be expressed as "inhuman". It is this low-psychic aspect of the terrestrial human being that to a particular extent give life to gossip's lowest reeking puddles and stinking banks of fog.
 
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* Translator's note: The fifth commandment referred to here is commonly referred to as the sixth in English Bibles.