Everything else had to be given away.
Allowances would be given away, not auctioned.
Surplus plants can be given away.
"For whosoever hath, to [her] shall be given … but whosoever hath not, from [her] shall be taken away even that [she] hath".
This process of mutual reinforcement provides the selective pressure that is the prerequisite for any Darwinian-based theory: to those neuronal networks that have shall be given, from those that have not, even what little they have shall be taken away.
The name comes from a passage in the Scriptures: "For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath".
(2 Thessalonians 3 10) For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Looking at her policies, I can only imagine her favourite Bible verse to be Matthew 25:29: "For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath".
The educator E. D. Hirsch Jr. has pointed to a trend he labels the Matthew Effect, citing the Biblical injunction: " 'For unto every one that hath shall be given and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.' We've lifted up rich kids beyond their competence," he says, "while the verbal skills of the black underclass continue to decline".
He dubbed this a 'Matthew' effect, referring to the New Testament ('For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath').
"Ask and it shall be given you," says Matthew 7 7.
