How it could come to pass I do not know, but I remember it clearly. The dream embraced thousands of years and left in me only a sense of the whole. I only know that I was the cause of their sin and downfall. Like a vile trichina, like a germ of the plague infecting whole kingdoms, so I contaminated all this earth, so happy and sinless before my coming. They learnt to lie, grew fond of lying, and discovered the charm of falsehood.

Oh, everyone laughs in my face now, and assures me that one cannot dream of such details as I am telling now, that I only dreamed or felt one sensation that ar…

All became so jealous of the rights of their own personality that they did their very utmost to curtail and destroy them in others, and made that the chief thi…

They sang the praises of nature, of the sea, of the woods. They liked making songs about one another, and praised each other like children; they were the simpl…