The Earth has killed itself. It is black, petrified, wizened, poisoned, burst; insanity has blown it rotten; and no creatures at all, joyful, despairing, cruel, kind, dumb, afire, loving, dull, shortly and brutishly hunt their days down like enemies on that corrupted face.

Watching Europe burn with its civilization of fire, Watching America disintegrate with its gods of steel, Watching the persecutors of mankind turn into dust, Was I wrong? Was I wrong?