The eudæmonistic motive is strongest in Deuteronomy; it is weakest with the Rabbis."[131] Few sayings are quoted and applied more frequently in the Rabbinical literature than the adage which closes those tractates of the Mishna which deal with the sacrificial law:--"He that brings few offerings is as he that brings many; let his heart be directed {302} heavenward."[132] The same faults which Jesus chastises in the hypocritical Rabbis of his day are also chastised in the Talmud. It is said, "Before a man prays let him purify his heart,"[133] and, "Sin committed with a good motive is better than a precept fulfilled from a bad motive."[134] Rabbi Elazar says, "No charity is rewarded but according to the degree of benevolence in it, for it is said, 'Sow (a reward) for yourselves in giving alms as charity, you will reap according to the benevolence.'"[135] Nor is the doctrine which requires disinterested motives for the performance of good deeds foreign to Muhammedan moralists. "Whatever we give," says the author of the Akhlâk-i-Jelâli, "should be given in the fulness of zeal and good-will. . . . We should spend it simply to please God, and not mix the act with any meaner motive, lest thereby it be rendered null and void."[136] [Footnote 122: _Cf._ Legge, _Religions of China_, p. 261 _sq._; Girard de Rialle, _Mythologie comparée_, p. 214.] [Footnote 123: _Lî Kî_, ii. 1. 2. 27. _Cf._ _Lun Yü_, iii. 4. 3.] [Footnote 124: _Lî Kî_, xxii. 1.] [Footnote 125: _Ibid._ xxii. 2.] [Footnote 126: _Lun Yü_, ii. 10. 1 _sq._] [Footnote 127: Douglas, _Confucianism and Taouism_, p. 272.] [Footnote 128: Wheeler, _History of India_, ii. 478.] [Footnote 129: _Dhammapada_, 1 _sq._] [Footnote 130: Gilmour, _Among the Mongols_, p. 239.] [Footnote 131: Montefiore, _op. cit._ pp. 483, 533. _1 Chronicles_, xxii. 19; xxviii. 9; xxix. 18 _sq._ _2 Chronicles_, xi. 16; xv. 12; xvi. 9.] [Footnote 132: Montefiore, _op. cit._ p. 484.] [Footnote 133: _Ibid._ p. 174.] [Footnote 134: Nazir, fol. 23 B, quoted by Hershon, _Treasures of the Talmud_, p. 74.] [Footnote 135: Succah, fol. 49 B, _ibid._ p. 11.] [Footnote 136: Quoted by Ameer Ali, _Ethics of Islâm_, p. 38 _sq._] CHAPTER XII FORBEARANCES AND CARELESSNESS--CHARACTER