/tab\the earth in her joy at the return of Kore.
/tab\The myth has now entered upon the third
/tab\phase of its life, in which it becomes the
/tab\property of those more elevated spirits,
/tab\who, in the decline of the Greek religion,
/tab\pick and choose and modify, with perfect
/tab\freedom of mind, whatever in it may seem
/tab\adapted to minister to their culture. In
/tab\this way the myths of the Greek religion
/tab\become parts of an ideal, visible embodi-@
/tab\ments of the susceptibilities and intentions
/tab\of the nobler kind of souls; and it is to
/tab\this latest phase of mythological develop-@
/tab\ment that the highest Greek sculpture
/tab\allies itself."

This illustration of the divination
by which the man of culture possesses
himself of a half-forgotten and ob-
scurely recorded experience and re-
habilitates and interprets it, is so
complete that it makes amplification
superfluous.

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