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strive to gain. They will help to the fashioning 

 of fairer worlds ; they will win to larger light ; 

 they will tower and soar as flame to enter the 

 Zones of the Divine. But thou and we go 

 back to slime! Think of the billion summers 

 that might have been for us ! think of the joys, 

 the loves, the triumphs cast away ! the dawns 

 of the knowledge undreamed, the glories of 

 sense unimagined, the exultations of illimitable 

 power! . . . think, think, O fool, of all that 

 thou hast lost ! " 



Then the Souls of the Man turned themselves 

 into worms, and devoured him. 



