Translations:Yirmi Altıncı Lem'a/66/en

But apart from a limited will as my support and defensive weapon in the face of the horrors coming from these six directions, I had nothing. The faculty of will, man’s only weapon against those innumerable enemies and endless harmful things, is both defective, and short, and weak, and lacks the power to create, so he is capable of nothing apart from ‘acquisition.’ It could neither pass to the past in order to silence the sorrows which came to me from there, nor could it penetrate the future to prevent the fears which arose from there. I saw that it was of no benefit for my hopes and pains concerning the past and future.