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.