Sympathy is one of the most sensitive and delicate of human virtues. It would not be too far wrong to say that it is one of those qualities that make human beings human.

I am not a specialist or scholar to enter into debate on whether sympathy is innate, instinctive or an acquired emotion! It is the capacity of the individual to reach out to share the joy and pain of others. It is innate.

I cannot help thinking that the quality of sympathy is also closely related to our imaginative capacity, for it is only when we enter imaginatively into the feelings and........

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