Then Jurgen mounted this horse and rode away from the plowed field wherein nothing grew as yet. As they left the furrows they came to a signboard with writing on it, in a peculiar red and yellow lettering. Jurgen paused to decipher this.

‘Read me!’ was written on the signboard: ‘read me, and judge if you understand! So you stopped in your journey because I called, scenting something unusual, something droll. Thus, although I am nothing, and even less, there is no one that sees me but lingers here. Stranger, I am a law of the universe. Stranger, render the law what is due the law!’

Jurgen felt cheated. ‘A very foolish signboard, indeed! for how can it be ‘a law of the universe’, when there is no meaning to it!’ says Jurgen. ‘Why, for any law to be meaningless would not be fair.’