As destructive as life,
As healing as death;
An institutioner of strife,
Just as prone to bless.
It is all that is good,
Yet with an evil trend;
As it was the beginning of things,
It can also be the end.

(In reply to is it... by Rebecca)

It has already been established in terms of previous posts that the total number of letters of the solution is 4.
NOTE: Take a very close look at the post given in :
http://perplexus.info/show.php?pid=5055&cid=34404
One of the words inclusive of the said post is a precise anagram of the solution to the problem.

Posted by K Sengupta on 2006-10-02 02:38:50