— in its grand aim: only so far is the work which such a spirit produces, a moral, political

organisation. If it be mere desires that impel nations to activity, such deeds pass over without

leaving a trace; or their traces are only ruin and destruction. Thus, it was first Chronos — Time —

that ruled; the Golden Age, without moral products; and what was produced — the offspring of

that Chronos — was devoured by it. It was Jupiter — from whose head Minerva sprang, and to

whose circle of divinities belong Apollo and the Muses — that first put a constraint upon Time, and

set a bound to its principle of decadence. He is the Political god, who produced a moral work —

In the very element of an achievement the quality of generality, of thought, is contained; without