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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt:... mind of Plato, as well as in that of the Greeks generally, the more shall we be convinced that it formed essentially and inseparably a portion of Hellenic religious faith. The myth both presupposes, and springs out of, a settled basis and a strong expansive force of religious, social, and patriotic feeling, operating upon a past which is little better than a blank as to positive knowledge. It resembles history, in so far as its form is narrative; it resembles philosophy, in so far as it is occasionally illustrative; but in its essence and substance, in the mental tendencies by which it is created, as well as in those by which it is judged and upheld, it is the popularised expression of the divine and heroic faith of the people." See further, vol. i. pp. 370 ff., for a summary of Grote's whole discussion of Greek Myths in part i. of his Hist. of Greece. I am acquainted with no discussion of them which appears to me so informing and suggestive as Grote's. is, that beatitude will go before them into Galilee--that is, into the life of Contemplation. Galilee signifieth whiteness; and as whiteness is more full of corporeal light than any other colour, so is Contemplation more full of spiritual light than any other thing here below. And he saith, "will go before ": he saith not, "shall be with you"; thus giving us to understand that God alway goeth before our Contemplation; here can we never overtake Him who is our highest beatitude. And he saith, "There shall ye see Him, as He said "--that is, there ye shall have of His joy, to wit, felicity, as it is promised unto you here--that is, as it is surely ordained that ye may possess it. Thus it appeareth that we can find our beatitude (which is this felicity of which we speak), firs...