one o'clock in the morning
What a night ! what a night ! And yet it seems to me that I ought to rejoice . I read until one o'clock in the morning ! Herestauss , Doctor of Philosophy and Theogony , wrote the history and the manifestation of all those invisible beings which hover around man , or of whom he dreams . He describes their origin , their domains , their power ; but none of them resembles the one which haunts me . One might say that man , ever since he has thought , has had a foreboding and a fear of a new being , stronger than himself , his successor in this world , and that , feeling him near , and not being able to foretell the nature of the unseen one , he has , in his terror , created the whole race of hidden beings , vague phantoms born of fear .