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So that, in a metaphorical way of speaking, one might say that it

is dormant Friendship, and when it has endured for a space and

ripened into intimacy comes to be real Friendship; but not that

whose object is advantage or pleasure, because such motives

cannot produce even Kindly Feeling.

I mean, he who has received a kindness requites it by Kindly

Feeling towards his benefactor, and is right in so doing: but he

who wishes another to be prosperous, because he has hope of

advantage through his instrumentality, does not seem to be kindly

disposed to that person but rather to himself; just as neither is

he his friend if he pays court to him for any interested purpose.

Kindly Feeling always arises by reason of goodness and a certain

amiability, when one man gives another the notion of being a fine

fellow, or brave man, etc., as we said was the case sometimes

with those matched against one another.

Chapter VI.