[8:1] I suspect that most reforms pass through this stage. A man somehow feels clear that some new course is, for him, right, though he cannot marshal the arguments convincingly in favour of it, and may even admit that the weight of obvious evidence is on the other side. We read of judges in the seventeenth century who believed that witches ought to be burned and that the persons before them were witches, and yet would not burn them--evidently under the influence of vague half-realized feelings. I know a vegetarian who thinks that, as far as he can see, carnivorous habits are not bad for human health and actually tend to increase the happiness of the species of animals eaten--as the adoption of Swift's _Modest Proposal_ would doubtless relieve the economic troubles of the human race, and yet feels clear that for him the ordinary flesh meal (or 'feasting on corpses') would 'partake of the nature of sin'. The path of progress is paved with inconsistencies, though it would be an error to imagine that the people who habitually reject any higher promptings that come to them are really any more consistent. [9:1] _Transactions of the Third International Congress of Religions_, Oxford, 1908, pp. 26-7. [10:1] _The Buddhist Dharma_, by Mrs. Rhys Davids. [10:2] See _Die Mutaziliten, oder die Freidenker im Islam_, von H. Steiner, 1865. This Arab was clearly under the influence of Plotinus or some other Neo-Platonist. [11:1] Cf. E. Reisch, _Entstehung und Wandel griechischer Göttergestalten_. Vienna, 1909. [12:1] Parm. Fr. 8, 3-7 (Diels{2}). [12:2] Xen. Fr. 24 (Diels{2}). [12:3] Xen. Fr. 15. [12:4] Aesch. _Cho._ 60; Eur. _Hel._ 560; Bac. 284; Soph. _O.T._ 871. Cf. also ἡ φρόνησις ἁγαθὴ θεὸς μέγας. Soph. Fr. 836, 2 (Nauck). ὁ πλοῦτος, ἀνθρωπίσκε, τοῖς σοφοῖς θεός. Eur. _Cycl._ 316. ὁ νοῦς γὰρ ἡμῶν ἐστιν ἐν ἑκάστῳ θεός. Eur. Fr. 1018. φθόνος κάκιστος κάδικώτατος θεός. Hippothoön. Fr. 2. A certain moment of time: ἀρχὴ καὶ θεὸς ἐν ἀνθρώποις ἱδρυμένη σῴζει πάντα. Pl. Leg. 775 E. τὰ μῶρα γὰρ πάντ' ἐστὶν Ἀφροδίτη βροτοῖς. Eur. _Tro._ 989. ἧλθεν δὲ δαὶς θάλεια πρεσβίστη θεῶν. Soph. Fr. 548. [14:1] See J. E. Harrison, _Prolegomena_, i, ii, iv; Mommsen, _Feste der Stadt Athen_, 1898, pp. 308-22 (Thesmophoria), 384-404 (Anthesteria); 421-6 (Diasia). See also Pauly Wissowa, s.v. [14:2] _Prolegomena_, p. 15 f. [15:1] Luc. _Icaro-Menippos_ 24 schol. ad loc.