They lay lures for one another, they lure things out of one another⁠—that they call “good neighbourliness.” O blessed remote period when a people said to itself: “I will be⁠— master over peoples!”

For, my brethren, the best shall rule, the best also willeth to rule! And where the teaching is different, there⁠—the best is lacking .

If they had⁠—bread for nothing, alas! for what would they cry! Their maintainment⁠—that is their true entertainment; and they shall have it hard!

Beasts of prey, are they: in their “working”⁠—there is even plundering, in their “earning”⁠—there is even overreaching! Therefore shall they have it hard!

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