No. He need not. There is a second birth.
EVE. A second birth?
THE SERPENT. Listen. I will tell you a great secret. I am very subtle;
and I have thought and thought and thought. And I am very wilful, and
must have what I want; and I have willed and willed and willed. And I
have eaten strange things: stones and apples that you are afraid to eat.
EVE. You dared!
THE SERPENT. I dared everything. And at last I found a way of gathering
together a part of the life in my body--
EVE. What is the life?
THE SERPENT. That which makes the difference between the dead fawn and
the live one.
EVE. What a beautiful word! And what a wonderful thing! Life is the
loveliest of all the new words.
THE SERPENT. Yes: it was by meditating on Life that I gained the power
to do miracles.
EVE. Miracles? Another new word.
THE SERPENT. A miracle is an impossible thing that is nevertheless
possible. Something that never could happen, and yet does happen.
EVE. Tell me some miracle that you have done.
THE SERPENT. I gathered a part of the life in my body, and shut it into
a tiny white case made of the stones I had eaten.
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