"The world is a great mockery very busy dying doing a roaring trade that ends in nothing, wearying themselves in the fire of vanity that consumes, burns up and destroys them all at last. Wisdom stands on a very high place, but her voice is unheard in the din; so she is about to come down from her pedestal, and flash her lightning sword in the eyes of the infatuated crowds, and scatter death in their ranks, that the rest may attend and do her bidding. There will be no good time on earth till this occur. The watchers watch for it and wait. The tokens multiply."
(R. Roberts)