The Demon in the Lamp

In the looking glass he gazed into his own dark eyes. This was the fault of the Jews, who introduced into him self-doubt, guilt, a will to dissect himself, to open up his battered bleeding heart, to stare unhappy at the blood, black as ink, that gushed from it. Before the Hebrews what were men but beasts with speech, guiltless alike in joy and misery like children in animal innocence? But now he weighed his every word in the balance of good and evil and found the coin of good but a feather against the lead of wrongdoing and shameful dealing. Yes, this was their fault.