"Everywhere, from the crushed rocks beneath our feet to the soul of man, we see power, intelligence, life and glory, which astound us and seem to call for our worship. And everywhere we see them perishing, devouring one another and destroying themselves, often with dreadful pain, as though they came into being for no other end."
[A.C.Bradley. Shakespearean Tragedy. Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth.. Penguin Classics: 1991, p. 38]