Otherwise, as avarice is the necessary consequence of old age, those immortals would in time become proprietors of the whole nation, and engross the civil power, which, for want of abilities to manage, must end in the ruin of the public.

• 要不然，由于老年必然导致贪婪，那些长生不死的人迟早会成为整个国家的业主，垄断全国的权力，但因为缺乏管理能力，最终又必然导致整个国家的毁灭。