Stay--no confused and confusing names.

Of that which created the world, we know, we can know, nothing, save these attributes--power and unvarying regularity--stern, crushing, relentless regularity--heeding no individual cases--rolling--sweeping--burning on; no matter what scattered hearts, severed from the general mass, fall ground and scorched beneath its wheels.

The mixture of evil with good--the existence of suffering and of crime--in all times have perplexed the wise.

They created a god--they supposed him benevolent.

How then came this evil?
why did he permit it--nay, why invent, why perpetuate it?
To account for this, the Persian creates a second spirit, whose nature is evil, and supposes a continual war between that and the god of good.