It emanates from all and from each at the same time, at one and the same time from justice and from personal interest.

It is inflexible and natural, as much so as the law which, before our eyes, fits the lights and shadows so perfectly together.

It is so simple that it speaks to each one and tells him what it is.

The moral law has not proceeded from any ideal; it is the ideal which has wholly proceeded from the moral law.
* * * * * * The primeval cataclysm has begun again upon the earth.

My vision--beautiful as a fair dream which shows men's composed reliance on each other in the sunrise--collapses in mad nightmare.
But this flashing devastation is not incoherent, as at the time of the conflict of the first elements and the groping of dead things.