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"Politics?" said Mr. Ringgan. "It is to lose oneself in a seething-pot, where the scum is the most apparent thing." "But there is society?" said Rossitur. "Nothing better or more noble than the succession of motes that flit through a sunbeam into oblivion." "Well, why not then sit down quietly on one's estates and enjoy them, one who has enough?" "And be a worm in the heart of an apple."
Western Asia was a seething-pot, in which were mixed up a score of contradictory creeds, old and new, rational and irrational, Sabaism, Magism, Zoroastrianism, Grecian polytheism, teraphim-worship, Judaism, Chaldae mysticism, Christianity.
Around a fire which blazed and crackled beneath the large seething-pot, that seemed an emblem of the mystery and a promise of the good cheer which are the supposed characteristics of the gypsy race, were grouped seven or eight persons, upon whose swarthy and strong countenances the irregular and fitful flame cast a picturesque and not unbecoming glow.
"Politics?" said Mr. Ringgan. "It is to lose oneself in a seething-pot, where the scum is the most apparent thing." "But there is society?" said Rossitur. "Nothing better or more noble than the succession of motes that flit through a sunbeam into oblivion." "Well, why not, then, sit down quietly on one's estates and enjoy them, one who has enough?" "And be a worm in the heart of an apple."
And still, after the death of that mysteriously-destined sovereign, a halcyon sky seemed to hold its bland aspects over Russia's Sclavonian sister people, ancient Sarmatia. But ere long the scene changed, and the "seething-pot" of a universal ambition, the crucible of nations, grasped by the hand of Napoleon, began again to darken the world's atmosphere.
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