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quer and shine, unto the horror and envy of its neighbour, that is regarded as the high, the first, the standard, the significance of all things.

Verily, my brother, if thou once recognisedst a people's need and land and sky and neighbour, thou mightest easily find out the law of its resignations, and why it climbeth on this ladder unto its hope.

' Thou shalt ever be the first, standing out from the others : no one shall be loved by thy jealous soul unless thy friend ' that saying thrilled the soul of the Greek : then went he upon the path of his greatness.

'To speak the truth and handle bow and arrow well ' that was at once loved and reckoned hard by the people from whom my name cometh the name which is at once dear and hard unto me.

' To honour father and mother, and make their will thine unto the heart of thy heart : ' this table of resignations was hung up by another people which thereby became mighty and eternal.

' To keep faith and, for the sake of faith, risk honour and blood in evil and dangerous affairs ' - thus teaching itself another people conquered itself, and thus conquering became pregnant and heavy with great hopes.

Verily, men have made for themselves all their good and evil. Verily, they did not take it, they did not find it, it did not come down as a voice from heaven.

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