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over the street Arab. Fortune labors at this tiny being. By
the word ‘fortune’ we mean chance, to some extent. That
pigmy kneaded out of common earth, ignorant, unlettered,
giddy, vulgar, low. Will that become an Ionian or a Boeo-
tian? Wait, currit rota, the Spirit of Paris, that demon which
creates the children of chance and the men of destiny, re-
versing the process of the Latin potter, makes of a jug an
amphora.

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