Capitolo 31
it administers and he/she sells the justice among them. This individual is the only one
I give that Rome has ever conferred on them. In return for the great one
benefit of his/her presence, them pagan taxes on a tolerably wide
staircase: so a lot in the house, so a lot for the livestock, so a lot for
the right to turn on a fire, so a lot on the wine and so a lot on
the meat--when they is able to enjoy that luxury. They mumbles,
although not very bitterly, respect to the taxes as a kind of periodical
hailed that falls on the crop of their year. If theirs were to learn that
Rome had been swallowed above by an earthquake, they certainly is not able
I handed crying. They would go as usual on to their fields them,
sells their crops for the usual price, and they would pay less
taxes. This is what all the cities occupied from farmers you think of the
metropolis. Every administrative district alive alone, and for him; it is a
isolated body that has arm to work and a belly to fill. The
grower of the earth is everything, as you/he/she was the case in the Middle one
Age. There is any work, neither produced, neither business on some
wide staircase, neither movement of the ideas, neither the political life, neither some of
those powerful obligations that, in well-governed countries, colleagues the
provincial city to the capital as the members to the heart.
If there is a capital for these poor people, it is Heaven. Them
fervently believes in him, and you strive him to reach him/it with all of their strength.
The very country one that envies the two National crowns for his/her hearth-tax,
gladly pay two and a half to have _Viva Maria_ scribbled on his
door. Another complains him of the L3 for paid month to the Government
official, without a murmur to the thirty priests sustained by the
administrative district. There is a kind illness for which he/she comforts all of them to them
ills, called Faith. Don't brake them to give a stab with
a knife, when wine is their brains, or it gets mad in their hearts;
but it will prevent them to always eat meat one Friday.