Begetting Light

Indeed: "Oh, why should the soul of the mortal be proud?" There is nothing to be proud of. The only thing we have, the only produce of our brain and hands and feet, and all our being is filth, corruption, deceit, the lie, utmost wickedness. Have it in one word: all we have and are is dark­ness. Children of darkness, we beget darkness ever and again. And the end is fitting. Outer darkness, reserved in hell forever. And mark you: this is not the idea of the pes­simist among men. It is the...