When the world is encircled with wire and iron, there will be small people. When children dress like apes, Lutheranism will enter Tyrol. When luxury grows so great that men and women can no longer be told apart by their clothing, and a maidservant stands under every stable door dressed as finely as a tavern waitress — then take heed, the final times are near. When vanity comes into the cemetery, Christianity departs from the homes. When one can travel around the whole earth without a horse, the end of the world draws near.