And thus far it exists, if tracked, in all:

But linked, in me, to self-supremacy,

Existing as a centre to all things,

Most potent to create and rule and call

Upon all things to minister to it;

And to a principle of restlessness

Which would be all, have, see, know, taste, feel, all—

This is myself; and I should thus have been

Though gifted lower than the meanest soul.

And of my powers, one springs up to save