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I am the credulous man of qualities, ages, races, I advance from the people in their own spirit, Here is what sings unrestricted faith.

Omnes! omnes! let others ignore what they may, I make the poem of evil also, I commemorate that part also, I am myself just as much evil as good, and my nation is⁠—and I say there is in fact no evil, (Or if there is I say it is just as important to you, to the land or to me, as anything else.)

I too, following many and follow’d by many, inaugurate a religion, I descend into the arena, (It may be I am destin’d to utter the loudest cries there, the winner’s pealing shouts, Who knows? they may rise from me yet, and soar above everything.)

Each is not for its own sake, I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion’s sake.

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