14 THE CRIME OF PROMETHEUS

her by devising a formula that will yield him the totality of
her parts—the illusion of illusions! In line with this he obli-
ges himself to act in the name of the totality of his brothers
in establishing a universal technological tyranny. Hence is
inflamed is him that prurient egotism that desires to em-

brace the entire universe of time and space as its portion

and but wastes energy and erodes the will for no real gain.
In his predatory quest through the transformations of matter
for the real matrix of rest and order each brother walks alone,
yet with the despotically felt duty to progress forward in the
name of all his fellow men, rivals with universal claims equal
in right to his. The brothers, thus turned over to nature, are
made by nature separate, solitary, hostile, each compelled
to give battle to the other for his inheritance, and are also
made, by nature, brothers in bondage, each direly needing the
amalgamation of all the others into a mass-society of inces-
sant mobility and variance. For, according to ancient mother-
right, no single brother will ever become master. The same
technology which is the condition of universal brotherhood,
with its irresponsible and exclusive right of force, insidious-

ly disarms each.
The more Prometheus strove to forward his technolog-

ical monolith in his conspiracy against Zeus, the tighter
he bound himself to the shadows of earth and the more un-
speakable became his torment of solitude among the earth-
men. He was a god and longed to dwell among peers. He had
held fire; now he lay in darkness. He raged with contradic-
tory desires: to be free; to be a god on high; to bring Zeus
«down low with him. He wished to be saved from the
nightmare of his own artful creation.

Once his mother had whispered to him in secret that
even Zeus, should he father a son by a goddess of the old
earth-race, as was his wish, would himself fall by the hand
of that son. Prometheus, in his desperate need, decided to
make use of this knowledge in bringing Zeus to terms.

Under this threat, Zeus forsook the daughter of ancient