... we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.

Huts they made then, and fire, and skins for clothing, And a woman yielded to one man in wedlock... ... Common, to see the offspring they had made; The human race began to mellow then. Because of fire their shivering forms no longer Could bear the cold beneath the covering sky.

Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.

Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.

Human life lay foul before men's eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion's weight.

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

Nothing can be created out of nothing.