76. The love of the world, however, consists in desiring to appropriate to one's self, by every artifice, the wealth of others; and in setting the heart on riches, and suffering one's self to be withdrawn and led away by the world from spiritual love, which is love towards the neighbour, - thus from heaven. Those are in the love of the world, who are desirous of appropriating to themselves the goods of others by various stratagems; and especially those who endeavour to do so by cunning and deceit, holding the good of the neighbour of no account. They who are in this love, covet the goods of others; and, so far as they are not afraid of the laws and of the loss of reputation in the acquisition of gain, they actually rob and even plunder others.