EDUCATION: GREEK INFLUENCE 53 to know that they are those who rule the world, guide the whole by their power, take the race of men under their protection, and sometimes concern them- selves even about individuals. They neither give, nor have they, any evil, yet they chasten many and award penalties; at times they punish under the appearance of doing good. If thou wouldst make the Gods gracious unto thee, then be good ; he has honoured them enough who has become like them !” (Ep. xev. 48 f.). It is not needful to lift up the hands to heaven, or to make petition to the temple- servants to permit us to come close to the ear of the image of the God, as though he could better hear us there; God is nigh thee, God is with thee, God is in thee. Yes, I say again, a holy spirit dwells in us, to mark and observe our evil and our good ; as we treat him, so he treats us. No man is good without God’s aid ; nor can any, unhelped by Him, rise superior to Fate. He alone it is who gives us great and high thoughts and purposes. In every one of the good dwells some god or other.” “When thou seest a man undismayed in danger, unmoved by passion, happy amid adverse fortune, serene amid the storm, art thou not moved by reverence, wilt thou not say: ‘That is something too great and high to be thought of as the same in kind with the poor body in which it dwells’? A divine force has here come down to earth, a heavenly power by which the soul, with its splendid powers of thought, raises itself above all lower things, and laughs to scorn all our fears and desires. As the rays of the sun touch the earth indeed, but have their true home in that place whence they come forth ; so is it with the great and