Since we had been deprived of the god who possessed and pastured us, and since for their part the majority of animals all those who had an aggressive nature had gone wild, human beings, by themselves weak and defenseless, were preyed on by them, and in those first times were still without resources and without expertise of any sort; their spontaneous supply of food was no longer available to them, and they did not yet know how to provide for themselves, having had no shortage to force them to do so before.