这是奇迹。他看到，几乎根本不是骗人的，将邪恶变成真理，奉献为戒酒，傲慢地谦卑，掠夺慈善事业，thievery，亵渎，亵渎智慧，残酷地成为爱国主义，并虐待虐待。任何人都可以做到；它根本不需要大脑。它只是不需要角色。
(It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.)