"There is no 'law' in heaven or earth that man must needs obey! Take what you can, and all you can; and take it while you – may. Let not the Jew-born Christ ideal unnerve you from the fight. You have no 'rights' except the rights you win by – might. There is no justice, right, nor wrong; no truth, no good, no evil. There is no 'man's immortal soul,' no fiery, fearsome devil. There is no 'heaven of glory:' No! – no 'hell where sinners roast.' There is no 'God the Father,' No! – no Son, no 'Holy Ghost.' The world is no Nirvāna where joy forever flows. It is a grewsome butcher shop where dead 'lambs' hang in rows. Man is the most ferocious of all the beasts of prey. He rageth round the mountains, to love, and feast, and – slay. He sails the stormy oceans, he gallops o'er the plains, and sucks the very marrow-bones of captives held in – chains. Death endeth all for every man, – for every 'son of thunder;' Then be a lion (not a 'lamb') and – don't be trampled under."