Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
Only religion can lead to such evil.
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air's embrace.