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第1章 Dedication

To Ruth and Herbert S. Stoltz

Zeus now addressed the immortals: "What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their troubles when it is their own wickedness that brings them sufferings worse than any which Destiny allots them."

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