Cain. But how?
Lucifer.By a most crushing and inexorable80
Destruction and disorder of the elements,
Which struck a world to chaos, as a chaos
Subsiding has struck out a world: such things,
Though rare in time, are frequent in eternity.—
Pass on, and gaze upon the past.
Cain.'Tis awful!
Lucifer. And true. Behold these phantoms! they were once
Material as thou art.