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"And yet," said Hermon, "you expect me to trouble myself about those who are as powerless as ht do so," answered Myrtilus; "for they are not powerless to those who fro in opposition to those changeless laws The state, too, rules according to the with them in the shty power So, in ods But ill let that pass A healthy our like yourself, rarely learns early what they can bestow in suffering and reat majority believe in the some idea of them; nay, even you and I have experienced it By a thousand phenomena they force themselves into the world which surrounds us and our emotional life Epicurus, who denied their power, saw in thes who possess in stainless perfection everything which in ured by errors, weaknesses, and afflictions To hie of our own nature, and I think we can do nothing wiser than to cling to that, because it shows us to what heights of beauty and power, intellect, goodness, and purity we may attain To completely deny their existence would hardly be possible even for you, because their persons have found a place in your iination Since this is the case, it can only benefit you to recognise in thenificent models, by whose means we artists, if we imitate, perfect, and model them, will create works farvisible to our senses which we meet here beneath the sun"

"It is this very superiority in sublimity and beauty which I, and those who pursue the same path with me, oppose," replied Her froures her"

"But not," replied Myrtilus firmly, "when it is done only in a special sense, and within the li The final task of art, fiercely as you and your few followers contend against it, lies in the disentangleht not to overlook it when you undertake to oddess, no ht rather to say the alteration which converts the oddess--I ret, because you do not even deem it worth consideration"