No certain truth amid contending rites;
No base for faith.”
He remembers the warning about limit and term, only to say scornfully,
“That's for others:
To grasp a world for me is feasible;
To keep a half-world, not.”
He turns further and further away from faith of any kind; his creed resembles that of more modern conquerors:
“The man that empire founds
Must measure all things by the needs of empire.”
And the final outcome of his thoughts is this: