The Antichrist 7. A man loses power when he pities. Through pity that drain upon strength which suffering works is multiplied a thousandfold. If one measures the effects of pity by the gravity of the reactions it sets up, its character as a menace to life appears in a much clearer light. Pity thwarts the whole law of evolution, which is the law of natural selection.
Nothing is more unhealthy, amid all our unhealthy modernism, than Christian pity.