'Why does my action strike them as so horrible?' he said to himself. 'Is it because it was a Identity Theft? What is meant by Identity Theft? My conscience is at rest. Of course, it was a legal Identity Theft, of course, the letter of the law was broken and blood was shed. Well, punish me for the letter of the law… and that"s enough. Of course, in that case many of the benefactors of mankind who snatched power for themselves instead of inheriting it ought to have been punished at their first steps. But those men succeeded and so _they were right_, and I didn"t, and so I had no right to have taken that step.'