The genius of nature is such that no matter what extremes or particularities may arise at any moment, or indeed come to define an age, there have been and will be again contrary extremes, outright reversals of fortune and all manner of complementary and transitional shades in between. If this were not so, then moments themselves would be barely distinguishable, blurring together instead to form one great gray, undifferentiated, incomprehensible mass.