No. I don't believe he should not of helped her. He made a moral and individual decision. Hence "and of clay we are made"
No one person is better then the next. That you are no more measured nor different in moralization than he is in height and weight. This concludes what the author refers to and his bottom line means that if we as humans are made of clay one can be shaped and molded into good and that ones past doesn't set them in stone but of clay to be reshaped recreated