Beauty and strength — the might of man, and the majesty and sublimity of the misunderstood intelligences of the godhead, not only constituted the worship of the Greeks of old, but governed their lives, their actions, their laws, and the very aspirations of their hearts. […] The Gods demand their victim! […] They immediately spread their wings and flew away. […] Rhadamanthus was employed in compelling the dead to confess their crimes, and in punishing them for their offences. […] is their mirth from the mountains passed?