El Kudz means The City, and in a certain sense it is that, to unnumbered millions of people.

Custom is a despotic tyrant, wielding an iron sceptre over man, before whose unbounded sway unnumbered millions hourly bend.

Multiply the individual instance by unnumbered millions, stretch the agony to temporal infinity, and we confront the orthodox idea of hell!

Adam and Eve carried in their hands the weal or woe of the unnumbered millions of their children that should come after them.