“What you are taking involves the last extremity of inhumanity.  You are making your profit out of misfortune; you are levying a tax upon tears.  You are strangling the naked.  You are dealing blows on the starving.  There is no pity anywhere, no sense of your kinship to the hungry, and you call the profit you get from these sources kindly and humane!  Wo unto them that ‘put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter,’ Is. v. 20. and call inhumanity humanity!  This surpasses even the riddle which Samson proposed to his boon companions:—‘Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.’ Judges xiv. 14.  Out of the inhuman came forth humanity!  Men do not gather grapes of thorns, nor figs of thistles, Matt. vii. 16. nor humanity of usury.  A corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. cf. Matt. vii. 18.  There are such people as twelve-per-cent-men and ten-per-cent-men:  I shudder to mention their names.  They are exactors by the month, like the demons who produce epilepsy, attacking the poor as the changes of the moon come round. On the connexion between σεληνιασμός and ἐπιληψία, cf. Origen iii. 575–577, and Cæsarius, Quæst. 50.  On the special attribution of epilepsy to dæmoniacal influence illustrated by the name ἱερὰ νοσος, see Hippocrates, De Morbo Sacro.