“Ah, the bullheaded villain!” he says. “And O my good little people, you will perhaps see, one of these days, as I do now, that every human being who suffers anything evil to get into his nature, or to remain there, is a kind of Minotaur, an enemy of his fellow-creatures, and separated from all good companionship, as this poor monster was.”

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Christ’s descent into Limbo, and the earthquake at the Crucifixion. ↩

This is the doctrine of Empedocles and other old philosophers. See Ritter, History of Ancient Philosophy , Book V Chap. VI . The following passages are from Mr. Morrison’s translation:⁠—