Seen on one side, it must be regarded by every well constituted mind with disapprobation.

Seen on the other, it irresistibly extorts applause.

The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust.

But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his concise jests, on what he well knows to be his last day, in the pass of Thermopylae, is not to be contemplated without admiration.

To a superficial observer it may seem strange that so much evil and so much good should be found together.
But in truth the good and the evil, which at first sight appear almost incompatible, are closely connected, and have a common origin.