things and animals is still filled with happening, which you can take part in; and children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children, and the grownups are nothing, and their dignity has no value.

　　and if it frightens and torments you to think of childhood and of the simplicity and silence that accompanies it, because you can no longer believe in god, who appears in it everywhere, then ask yourself, dear mr. kappus, whether you have really lost god. isn't it much truer to say that you have never yet possessed him? for when could that have been? do you think that a child can hold him, him whom grown men bear only with great effort and whose weight crushes the old? do you suppose that someone who really has him could lose him like a little stone? or don't you think that someone who once had him could only be lost by him? but if you realize t

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