d labor for all these
necessities.

[5] But after the love of dominion entered and destroyed this state of
society, the love of having means beyond what was needed crept in also
and grew to the extreme of wanting to possess the wealth of all other
men. The two loves are like blood relatives, for one who wants to rule
over all things, also wants to possess all things; for then all others
become servants, and they alone masters. This is clearly evident from
those in the papist world who have exalted their dominion even into
heaven, to the Lord's throne, on which they have placed themselves, and
who at the same time seek the wealth of the whole earth and want to
enlarge their treasury endlessly.

[6] Second: _The nature of the love of distinction and wealth for their
own sake and for usefulness' sake respectively._ The love of distinction
and standing for their own sake is self-love--strictly, the love of ruling
from self-love; and the love of riches and wealth for their own sake is
love of the world--more precisely, the love of possessing the goods of
others by whatever device. But the love of distinction and riches for
usefulness' sake is love of the use, which is the same as love to the
neighbor; for that for the sake of which a man acts is the purpose from
which he acts, and is first or primary, and all else is means and
secondary.

[7] As for the love of distinction and standing, identical with self-love
and strictly with the love of ruling from self-love, it is the love of
the proprium; and man's proprium is all evil. Hence it is said that man
is born into all evil and that what he has by heredity is nothing but
evil. What he has by heredity is his proprium in which he is and into
which he comes through self-love and especially through the love of
ruling from self-love; for one who is in that love regards only himself
and thus immerses his thoughts and affections in his proprium. Hence a
love of evil-doing is present in self-love. The reason is that he does
not love the neighbor but only himself; and one who loves himself only,
sees others as outsiders or as mean or nothing worth, despises them, and
does not hesitate to do them injury.

[8] For this reason one who is in the love of ruling from the love of
self thinks nothing of defrauding his neighbor, committing adultery with
his wife, slandering him, breathing vengeance on him even to the death,
treating him cruelly, and other such deeds. This a man gets from t