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CHAPTER 57.

When, as Hamlet says, "the time is out of joint," we observe that political disorder produces restlessness among the people and in its wake come startling events. The people are frightened and superstition dominates their minds. The result is that ghosts will spook and the gods will be angry, as stated in Chapter 60.


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