To the Greeks and Romans, there was a time more remote than history gives us any account of, when there was neither land nor water, and when the earth and all things within and upon it were “without form and void.” […] A son of Vulcan, who married Lathæa, a woman who thought herself more beautiful than the goddesses, and as a punishment she and her husband were turned into stone statues. […] “More lovely than Pandora, whom the gods Endowed with all their gifts.” […]                                       “His wine Was better, Pylades, than thine. […] With reference to this God, nothing can be more appropriate than St.