And even if the old myth be true, and the man only fell, because he was set to do higher work than the flea, what does that prove--but that he could not do it?
'But his arts and his sciences ?....

Apage! The very sound of those grown-children's rattles turns me sick....

One conceited ass in a generation increasing labour and sorrow, and dying after all even as the fool dies, and ten million brutes and slaves, just where their fore-fathers were, and where their children will be after them, to the end of the farce....

The thing that has been, it is that which shall be; and there is no new thing under the sun....
'And as for your palaces, and cities, and temples....

look at this Campagna, and judge.