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mdp.39015031076584-04	nan	The Dial  v.78 1925	1925		.txt	text/plain	35263	1573	71	Do not reply too hastily; for on second thoughts I am confident you would not allow the small stature or the black colour of ants to prejudice you against their rights as living creatures; and the accident that they are too busy at home to come and vote in the agora ought not to count against them; for I suppose the interests of children and sick people and old men, who are not able to jostle their way to the voting-booths, are not neglected in your just democracy, but your chief magistrate or high priest or some vestal virgin especially appointed doubtless rises solemnly in your assembly, amid a general hush, and casts a vote in their name. But the superficies of this truth” which is so self-evident and so convincing to us, the entire first great glory of the modern- ness in these works—this will pass; yet to-day there is more strength 362 HONORE DE BALZAC 2 and more life than ever in the inner truth of this world (a world projected by the imagination and touching the ephemeral reality only for a moment, at thousands of incidental points).	cache/mdp.39015031076584-04.txt	txt/mdp.39015031076584-04.txt