On abstaining from pronouncing things good or bad.

 As a mere point of logic, it is obviously fallacious to infer facts from values, Is from Ought. It may be that the world ought to be thus-and-so or that it would be better if it were, but it does not follow that that is the way it is.

If ‘all ethics, however refined, remains more or less subjective’, then to use ethical notions in metaphysics is ‘to legislate for the universe on the basis of the present desires of men.

Good and bad, and even the higher good that mysticism finds everywhere, are the reflections of our own emotions on other things not part of the substance of the things as they are in themselves. And therefore an impartial contemplation, freed from the all preoccupation with self will not judge things good or bad