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.

Look out upon nature, develop the faculty which you declare to be wanting, in you, and the beauty of creation will teach you without my assistance that you are praying to a false god." "I do not pray," said Nebsecht, "for the law which moves the world is as little affected by prayers as the current of the sands in your hour-glass.

Who tells you that I do not seek to come upon the track of the first beginning of things?
I proved to you just now that I know more about the origin of Scarabei than you do.

I have killed many an animal, not only to study its organism, but also to investigate how it has built up its form.