The Parable of the Magic Powder

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There was a village full of bandits and thieves, their wives and children, and grandparents. The thieves laughed and stole and fought and sometimes killed one another. Men feared one another and lived on their guard. It was a very human village.

One day a traveling peddler and his family came to the village from a distant land. The peddler had a secret formula that could be used to turn certain ground-up…