You see harmony and goodness in everything.

I have observed that passion awakens life, that all existence is a conflict, that one being devours another." "And do you not feel the beauty of visible creation, and does not the immutable law in everything fill you with admiration and humility ?" "For beauty," replied Nebsecht, "I have never sought; the organ is somehow wanting in me to understand it of myself, though I willingly allow you to mediate between us.

But of law in nature I fully appreciate the worth, for that is the veritable soul of the universe.

You call the One 'Temt,' that is to say the total--the unity which is reached by the addition of many units; and that pleases me, for the elements of the universe and the powers which prescribe the paths of life are strictly defined by measure and number--but irrespective of beauty or benevolence." "Such views," cried Pentaur troubled, "are the result of your strange studies.

You kill and destroy, in order, as you yourself say, to come upon the track of the secrets of life.