The aggregates of joy and suffering thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there, on a mote of dust,
喜び 苦しみ 数え切れないほどの宗教 イデオロギーや経済主義 狩猟者も採集者も ヒーローも弱虫も 文化の創造者も 破壊者も 王様も農民も 愛し合う恋人たちも 母親や父親 望みある子どもも 発明者も 探検家も 道徳ある先生も 汚職にまみれた政治家も スーパースターも 一流の指導者も 人類史上名を残す聖人も罪人も 太陽光に浮かんだ塵の中で