<p><SPAN name="link43" id="link43"></SPAN>And a merchant said, Speak to us of
<b><i>Buying and Selling</i></b>.</p>
<p>And he answered and said:</p>
<p>To you the earth yields her fruit, and you shall not want if you but know how
to fill your hands.</p>
<p>It is in exchanging the gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and be
satisfied.</p>
<p>Yet unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to
greed and others to hunger.</p>
<p>When in the market place you toilers of the sea and fields and vineyards meet
the weavers and the potters and the gatherers of spices,—</p>
<p>Invoke then the master spirit of the earth, to come into your midst and
sanctify the scales and the reckoning that weighs value against value. <SPAN name="link44" id="link44"></SPAN>And suffer not the barren-handed to take part in
your transactions, who would sell their words for your labour.</p>
<p>To such men you should say,</p>
<p>“Come with us to the field, or go with our brothers to the sea and cast
your net;</p>
<p>For the land and the sea shall be bountiful to you even as to us.”</p>
<p class="p2">
And if there come the singers and the dancers and the flute players,—buy
of their gifts also.</p>
<p>For they too are gatherers of fruit and frankincense, and that which they
bring, though fashioned of dreams, is raiment and food for your soul.</p>
<p>And before you leave the market place, see that no one has gone his way with
empty hands.</p>
<p>For the master spirit of the earth shall not sleep peacefully upon the wind
till the needs of the least of you are satisfied.</p>
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