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142 THE MIRACLES OF AJVTICHRIST
not all understand that hereafter the old and the
sick should be cared for?
He also saw some children who, as he knew, lived
on cresses and sorrel, which they gathered on the
river-banks and by the roadside, and he promised
that henceforward no one should need to starve.
He laid his hand on the children’s heads, and swore
as solemnly as if he were prince of Diamante, that
they should never again want for bread.
They knew nothing in Diamante, he said; they
were ignorant; they did not understand that a new
and blessed time had come; they believed that this
old misery would continue forever.
While he was thus consoling the poor, more and
more had gathered about him, and he suddenly
sprang up, placed himself on the steps of the
fountain, and began to speak.
How could they, he said, be so foolish as to
believe that nothing better would come? Should
the people, who possessed the whole earth, be
content to let their parents starve, and their children
grow up to be good-for-nothings and criminals?
Did they not know that there were treasures in
the mountains, and in the sea, and in the ground?
Had they never heard that the earth was rich? Did
they think that it could not feed its children?
They should not murmur among themselves, and
say that it was impossible to arrange matters
differently. They should not think that there must be
rich and poor. Alas, they understood nothing!
They did not know their Mother Earth. Did they
think that she hated any of them? They had lain
down on the ground and heard the earth speak?
Perhaps they had seen her make laws? They had
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