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Eben darum, weil er dem Glauben seiner Jugend nicht mit ruhiger Wahl entsagt; weil er nicht gewartet hatte, bis seine reifere Vernunft sich gemächlich davon abgelöst hatte; weil er ihm als ein Flüchtling entsprungen war, auf den die Eigentumsrechte seines Herrn immer noch fortdauern – so mußte er auch nach noch so großen Distraktionen immer wieder zu ihm zurückkehren.
This was why—because he did not quietly and freely renounce the faith of his youth, because he had not waited until his maturer reason had slowly freed itself from its hold, because he had escaped it as a runaway over whom his master continued to exercise his proprietary rights—this was why, even after so many distractions, he was obliged to return to it again and again. He had escaped but still wore the manacles and for this reason was doomed to become the prey of each andevery swindler who could see this and was able to use it.
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