Legends

examination of my conscience, and, true to my new resolve not to justify myself as aga

nst law and order, against religion, authority, morality. That is my

"And the others, the opposers of my revolutionary views, the pious defenders of morality, of the Stat

of society and their various fortu

t attacks of hysteria. To add to his troubles, his guardian angel left him in the lurch, so that his affairs became embarrassed from his engaging in speculations

in the transfer of property. But don't think, reader, that I make his sin an excuse for my blasphemies. It is a trouble to me

No one knows it, but on her there rests a dark and terrible suspicion. Edifying, is it not? As to the other pillars of moral and religious order, I pass them over, whether they have pu

ay? Is it the irrevocable doom pronounced against Sodo

common as fellow-sinners, without e

revolt, frivolous, disorderly. Am I the first inventor of revolt or sin? Formerly I was the youth led astray, the child of my time, the disciple of my teachers,

of "black magic" comes

ignorance that I h

out the revolt aga

spent their lives on their knees in devotion a

orld to be bowed in the dust and humbled till we are disgusted with ourselves, in order that we may feel homesick for heaven. S

e way to Rome, the imperia