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each person in such a savage tribe is also brought 

 to bear upon all civilized people in our own com- 

 munities, though often by far more indirect and 

 roundabout methods. The knowledge that hon- 

 esty is the best policy for everybody all round, and 

 that dishonesty is hurtful for all of us alike, helps 

 to keep the less scrupulous from falling into evil 

 ways, find makes the more scrupulous all the more 

 careful in not encouraging or countenancing in 

 any way any but those of known and tried personal 

 probity. 



