New world

The new worlds [that form “out of the nebulous gases of decadent, old orders”] are the arsonists who come into contact with the old, extinct, and petrifi ed during their development, and who present to us the sublime drama of a heavenly revolution. Death and resurrection, solidifi cation and dissolution, are the means of eternal reproduction.Moses Hess, “Physische Beschaffenheit und Geschichte der Weltkörper,” 1857