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THIRTY-FIRST SITUATION
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(4) — Presumptuous Rivalry with a God: — "The Nurses" by Aeschylus; "Niobe" by Sophocles; "La Mère du Pape" (Miracle of Notre-Dame, XIV Century).

(5) — Imprudent Rivalry with a Deity: — Sophocles' "Eumele;" in part "Phaeton" by Euripides.

May it not be possible that we shall one day see treated from the point of view of this Situation, the pathetic death of Guyot-Dessaigne, Minister of Justice?