ALL the Goods were once driven out by the Ills from that common share which they each had in the mankind; for the Ills of their numbers had prevailed to possess the earth.
The Goods went themselves to heaven and asked for a righteous vengeance on their persecutors.
They told Jupiter that they might no longer be associated with the Ills, as they had nothing in common and could not live together, but were engaged in unceasing warfare; and that an indissoluble law might be laid down for their future protection.
Jupiter granted their request and decreed that henceforth the Ills should visit the earth in company with each other, but that the Goods should one by one enter the habitations of men.
Hence it arises that Ills abound, for they
come not one by one, but in troops, and by no
means singly: while the Goods proceed from
Jupiter, and are given, not alike to all, but
singly, and separately; and one by one to those
who are able to discern them.