[A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by James De Mille]@TWC D-Link bookA Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder CHAPTER XVI 4/20
The position of Almah and myself illustrates this.
Our ignorance of the blessings and honors of poverty led us to receive whatever was offered us.
Taking advantage of our innocence and ignorance, the whole city thereupon proceeded to bestow their property upon us, and all became paupers through our fortunate arrival. No one ever injures another unless by accident, and when this occurs it affords the highest joy to the injured party.
He has now a claim on the injurer; he gets him into his power, is able to confer benefits on him and force upon him all that he wishes.
The unhappy injurer, thus punished by the reception of wealth, finds himself helpless; and where the injury is great, the injured man may bestow upon the other all his wealth and attain to the envied condition of a pauper. Among the Kosekin the sick are objects of the highest regard.
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