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446 The great masters and kosmos are well as they go—
 * the heroes and good-doers are well,

The known leaders and inventors, and the rich owners
 * and pious and distinguished, may be well,

But there is more account than that—there is strict
 * account of all.

The interminable hordes of the ignorant and wicked
 * are not nothing,

The barbarians of Africa and Asia are not nothing, The common people of Europe are not nothing—the
 * American aborigines are not nothing,

The infected in the immigrant hospital are not
 * nothing—the murderer or mean person is not
 * nothing,

The perpetual successions of shallow people are not
 * nothing as they go,

The lowest prostitute is not nothing—the mocker of
 * religion is not nothing as he goes.

I shall go with the rest—we have satisfaction, I have dreamed that we are not to be changed so
 * much, nor the law of us changed,

I have dreamed that heroes and good-doers shall
 * be under the present and past law,

And that murderers, drunkards, liars, shall be under
 * the present and past law,

For I have dreamed that the law they are under now
 * is enough.

And I have dreamed that the satisfaction is not so
 * much changed, and that there is no life without
 * satisfaction;

What is the earth? what are body and Soul, without
 * satisfaction?