Because you are cowards, because you bear the brand of a threefold degradation.
And the first is ignorance through which you cannot answer yes or no, but stand open-mouthed like men bereft of their wits.
And the second is the woman, on whom there hangs a curse; and she was made to remain at home and submit to the strong and capable hand; but you have taken the woman to be your mistress.
And the third is the spirit of the word and of speech.
But I shall let loose upon you a speech that you do not know,
Insatiable, irresistible,
I shall establish over you the empire of the sword,
The sword that pierces and divides, the sword that penetrates and pursues!
O imbecility! O inertia! Enormous burden of ignorant men! Behold I have risen,
Like a nurse that overlies a child you lay upon me; but I have risen and dashed you to the earth.