And he had taken up arms, as Lucifer, assuming his individual right to live in spite of God, Man and Nature, convinced that the secret could be discovered and determined to find it and to use it, no matter at what price.

In him there was neither ambition, nor pride, nor vanity in the ordinary meaning of these words.

For passion ceases with the cessation of comparison between man and his fellows, and Keyork Arabian acknowledged no ground for such a comparison in his own case.

He had matched himself in a struggle with the Supreme Power, and, directly, with that Power's only active representative on earth, with death.
It was well said of him that he had no beliefs, for he knew of no intermediate position between total suspension of judgment, and the certainty of direct knowledge.

And it was equally true that he was no atheist, as he had sanctimoniously declared of himself.