Rose girl, bearing your posies, </br> What are you coming to sell? </br> Is it yourself or your roses, </br> Or yourself and your roses as well? - Simon Raven

The highest moral character can procure one no preference among the shades.

And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.

In becoming the universe God abdicated. He destroyed himself as God. He turned what he had been, his true self, into nullity and thereby forfeited the Godlike qualities which pertained to him. The universe which he has become is also his grave. He has no control in it or over it. God, as God, is dead.