are no longer seething within him,
but are working themselves out in
vital consequences; whose thought
is no longer purely speculative, but
has begun to give form and shape to
laws, habits, or institutions. It is the
revelation of the human spirit in
action which we find in the epic and
the drama; the inward life working
itself out in material and social rela-
tions; the soul of the man becom-
ing, so to speak, externalised.

The epic, as illustrated in the
"Iliad" and "Odyssey," deals with
a main or central movement in
Greek tradition; a series of events
which, by reason of their nature and
prominence, imbedded themselves
in the memory of the Greek race.
These events are described in narra-
tive form, with episodes, incidents,
and dialogues, which break the long

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