...and an eternal will rose up in me, and said: 'Let there be light!' "This will it was that, by-and-by, grew and grew in me, and made me strong. . . . "I...understood how blind fate can strip and plunder us all, and yet something will remain in us at the last, that nothing in heaven or earth can vanquish....

...an eterr nal will rose up in me, and said : *Let there be light!" "This will it was that by-and-by grew and grew in me, and made me strong. "I began...understood how blind fate can strip and plunder us all, and yet something will remain in us at the last, that nothing in heaven or earth can vanquish....

...act of divine charity means more in Peer's reading of the universe than all his triumphs over nature. "I began to feel an unspeakable compassion for all...the last resort I was proud that I was one of them. And I knew now that what I had hungered after in my best years was neither knowledge, nor honour, nor...