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Paraphrase. 1. It was Ruth all over again. I had some very good friends who stood by me, and still do. But my acquaintances vanished, taking the girls with them. What had happened to Ruth and me now happened again. Although my close friends still support me as they used to, my grade-two thinking frightened away many of my acquaintances. 2. She became suddenly afraid of that pitiless, cruel earth, the peasant’s slave master, that would keep her chained to hard work and poverty all her life until she would sink again into its bosom. She became afraid of the earth because it was going to force her to work like a slave and force her to struggle against poverty all her life until she died and was buried in it. 3. It would be quite wrong to attribute all opinions--- even political opinions— to self-interest. But it would be equally wrong to deny that this is one potent factor. Human motivations are complicated. There are other-regarding motivations as well as self-regarding ones. Therefore it is wrong to be cynical and think that all beliefs are based on self-interest. However, we must admit that self interest is a very powerful factor. 4. Part of the beauty of the borehole is that it requires no elaborate apparatus. Obtaining water out of the ground by drilling deep holes is easy, requiring no complicated equipment. 5. We, too, are trapped in the same sort of false illusion that stymied critical thought. We are also fooled by the same kind of myth that made us unable to think critically. 6. Suppose anybody saw us like this in the field of our spring sowing, what would they take us for but a pair of useless, soft, empty-headed people that would be sure to die of hunger. Para. 10 If people should see us like this with your arm round my waist , what would they think of us? They were sure to take us for a pair of good-for-nothings, people who are unable to endure hardships and foolish and, therefore, were sure to die of hunger. 7. Other beliefs are held through self-inte