This is mere poetry to us, and very fine it is; but to him it was poetry, and religion, and beauty, and gravity and hushing awe, and a path as from one world to another.” […] I know but this, that it must come. […] The latter, not disheartened, dressed a statue as Queen of Olympus, placed it in his chariot, and declared it should be the future wife of the ruler of the Gods. […] This was effected by the rays of the sun when they fell on it. […] This was to offer it to the wisest man in Greece.