It is the surrender of the greatest to run risk and danger, and play dice for death.

And where there is sacrifice and service and love-glances, there also is the will to be master. By by-ways doth the weaker then slink into the fortress, and into the heart of the mightier one—and there steals power.

And this secret spoke Life herself unto me. “Behold,” said she, “I am that WHICH MUST EVER SURPASS ITSELF.