Translations:Welt/42/en

"This, my child, is an attempt to track down the natural laws. Every week, the amount of peasants, trees, and horses are changing in the regions. They die, are born or emigrate. I tried to find out why they do so, without ever asking them." A silent smile appeared on Selens face. "It seems that most depends on the space peasants and trees must share." The young novice pointed at a second little drawing scribbled at the edge of the parchment. "And what does this mean? It looks similar to the big one." - "In the big drawing, I sketched in the figures of a plain near the ocean with fertile soil. The little one describes the development of an inhospitable swamp. You can see that the trends are similar, but the swamp has less of everything."