With disdain I will throw my gauntlet

And see the collapse of this pygmy giant | Whose fall will not stifle my ardour. | Then I will wander godlike and victorious | Through the ruins of the world. | And, giving my words an active force | I will feel equal to the Creator. | 1837, as quoted in Karl Marx: His Life and Thought by David McLellan, p. 22. See also M. Rubel, "Les Cahiers d'études de Karl Marx (1840-1853)", International Review of Social History (1957)