The Burden

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• 'Nothing like that. I see, I've seen it plainly in the weeks I've been here, that I've escaped a great danger.' 'What danger?' 'Man cannot be trusted with power. It rots him-from within. How much longer could I have gone on without the taint creeping in? I suspect that already it had begun to work. Those moments when I spoke to those vast crowds of people-wasn't I beginning to assume that it was I who was speaking, I who was giving them a message, I who knew just what they should or should not do, I who was no longer just God's messenger, but God's representative? You see? Promoted to Vizier, exalted, a man set above other men!' He added quietly: 'God in His goodness has seen fit to save me from that.' (查看原文)

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