801. A further reason why the Dutch are in those quarters of the Christian nucleus is because trade is the aim of their love, and money the means of serving that aim; and this is a spiritual love. But when money is the aim of their love, and trade the means serving that aim, as in the case of the Jews, that is a natural love, being tainted with avarice. The reason the love of trading is spiritual, provided it is the chief aim, is that its purpose is to serve the good of the community. One's personal good is inseparable from this, and seems to surpass it, because people's thoughts come from the natural man. But so long as trade is the aim, the spiritual love exists too, and in heaven everyone is looked at from the point of view of the aim of his love. This love is like the lord of a realm, or like the master of a household, and the other loves are like his subjects or servants. The love of the aim also resides in the highest and inmost levels of the mind, and the loves which are means are below and outside this, obedient to its command. The Dutch above others have this spiritual love; the Jews the reverse of this love. So in their case the love of trading is wholly natural, having hidden within it no regard for the good of the community, but only that of the self.