I tried, I longed to PRAY.
Yet to whom?
To what?
To the Universal Law of Necessity?
In that there could be no hearing or answering of human petitions.

I meditated on this with a kind of sombre ferocity.

Who portioned out this Law of Necessity?
What brutal Code compels us to be born, to live, to suffer, and to die without recompense or reason?
Why should this Universe be an ever-circling Wheel of Torture?
Then a fresh impetus came to me.

I rose from my recumbent posture and stood erect; I trembled no more.

A curious sensation of defiant amusement possessed me so violently that I laughed aloud.