1 But this is not the only sin upon us.
2 We repeat this to ourselves, but it helps us not.
3 It was not that the learning was too hard for us.
4 It has always given us wishes which men may not wish.
5 It has always driven us to thoughts which are forbidden.
6 We ask, why must we know, but it has no answer to give us.
7 The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked upon us.
8 We wished to know about all the things which make the earth around us.
9 We know not why our curse makes us seek we know not what, ever and ever.
10 We know that we are evil, but there is no will in us and no power to resist it.
11 The Council of the Home told us so, and of all the children of that year, we were locked in the cellar most often.
12 It whispers to us that there are great things on this earth of ours, and that we can know them if we try, and that we must know them.
13 What punishment awaits us if it be discovered we know not, for no such crime has come in the memory of men and there are no laws to provide for it.
14 And if sometimes, in the secret darkness of our heart, we regret that which befell us on our fifteenth birthday, we know that it was through our own guilt.
15 And now there is nothing here save our one body, and it is strange to see only two legs stretched on the ground, and on the wall before us the shadow of our one head.
16 And as we look back upon our life, we see that it has ever been thus and that it has brought us step by step to our last, supreme transgression, our crime of crimes hidden here under the ground.
17 All the great modern inventions come from the Home of the Scholars, such as the newest one, which was found only a hundred years ago, of how to make candles from wax and string; also, how to make glass, which is put in our windows to protect us from the rain.
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