r, wisdom, or will. Sin

Sign of honor, each one receives what he is in need of. To the heroes
and heroines of the republic, it is customary to give the pleasing gifts
of honor, beautiful wreaths, sweet food, or splendid clothes, while they
are feasting. In the daytime all use white garments within the city, but
at night or outside the city they use red garments either of wool or
silk. They hate black as they do dung, and therefore they dislike the
Japanese, who are fond of black. Pride they consider the most execrable
vice, and one who acts proudly is chastised with the most ruthless
correction. Wherefore no one thinks it lowering to wait at table or to
work in the kitchen or fields. All work they call discipline, and thus
they say that it is honorable to go on foot, to do any act of nature, to
see with the eye, and to speak with the tongue; and when there is need,
they distinguish philosophically between tears and spittle. Every man
who, when he is told off to work, does his duty, is considered very
honorable. It is not the custom to keep slaves. For they are enough, and
more than enough, for themselves. But with us, alas! it is not so. In
Naples there exist 70,000 souls, and out of these scarcely 10,000 or
15,000 do any work, and they are always lean from overwork and are
getting weaker every day. The rest become a prey to idleness, avarice,
ill-health, lasciviousness, usury, and other vices, and contaminate and
corrupt very many families by holding them in servitude for their own
use, by keeping them in poverty and slavishness, and by imparting to
them their own vices. Therefore public slavery ruins them; useful works,
in the field, in military service, and in a

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