It was man's ax and hammer that dashed down the carved work of cathedrals and turned the treasure cities into battle-fields, and opened galleries to the mold of sea winds.

Disobedience to law has made cities a heap and walled cities ruins.

Man is the pestilence that walketh in darkness.

Man is the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
When Mephistopheles appears in human form his presence falls upon homes like the black pall of the consuming plague, that robes cities for death.

The classic writer tells of an Indian princess sent as a present to Alexander the Great.