into a beneficent and much labouring
goddess. We must go with Mr.
Pater a step farther if we would under-
stand how a man of culture divines
the deeper experiences of an alien
race:--

/tab\"Three profound ethical conceptions,
/tab\three impressive sacred figures, have now
/tab\defined themselves for the Greek imagina-@
/tab\tion, condensed from all the traditions
/tab\which have now been traced, from the
/tab\hymns of the poets, from the instinctive
/tab\and unformulated mysticism of primitive
/tab\minds. Demeter is become the divine,
/tab\sorrowing mother. Kore, the goddess of
/tab\summer, is become Persephone, the goddess
/tab\of death, still associated with the forms and
/tab\odours of flowers and fruit, yet as one risen
/tab\from the dead also, presenting one side of
/tab\her ambiguous nature to men's gloomier
/tab\fancies. Thirdly, there is the image of
/tab\Demeter enthroned, chastened by sorrow,
/tab\and somewhat advanced in age, blessing

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