Divine faculties for the most part an extension from the human 348 Their dependence on the eye 350 Their powers of locomotion 352 Chief heads of superiority to mankind 353 Their superiority in stature and beauty 354 Their libertinism 355 Their keen regard to sacrifice and the ground of it 357 Their circumscribed power over nature 358 Parts of the body how ascribed to them 359 Examples of miracle in Homer 361 Mode of their action on the human mind 363 They do not discern the thoughts 365 SECT. VI. _The Olympian Community and its Members considered in their influence on human society and conduct._ Lack of periodical observances and of a ministering class 367 Yet the religion was a real power in life 368 The effect of the corruption of the gods was not yet fully felt 369 They show little regard to human interests 371 A moral tone is occasionally perceptible 373 Prevalent belief as to their views of man and life 374 It lent considerable support to virtue 377 Their course with respect to Troy 378 Bearing of the religion on social ties 380 And on political relations 382 The Oath 383 Bearing of the religion on the poems 385 As regards Neptune’s wrath in the Odyssey 387 As regards the virtue of purity 388 As regards poetic effect 388 Comparison of its earliest and latest form 390 Gloom prevails in Homer’s view of human destiny 392 The personal belief of Homer 394 SECT. VII. _On the traces of an origin abroad for the Olympian Religion._ The Olympian deities classified according to local extraction 397 Their connection as a body with the Æthiopes 399 Confirms the hypothesis of Persian origin 402 Herodotus on the Scythian religion 402 His report from Egypt about the Greek deities 404 Four several bases of religious systems 405 Anthropophuism in the Olympian religion 406 Nature-worship as described in the Book of Wisdom 406 Its secondary place in the Olympian religion 407