Our Renaissance Essays On the Reform And Revival of Classical Studies
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It is certain that there was a connexion between death and the rites of the goddess Demeter. The very phrase reXer^, by which the Mystery was called, has been thought to imply such connexion. There appears to have been quite a wide-spread conviction that a real purification of the soul was granted to those who were in a duly pious spirit initiated. In a general sketch like the present it is hardly possible to make all the distinctions which a more complete treatise would contain. It would hardl...y be accurate to speak of a transi- tional period between the religion of the myths and the religion of philosophy because in truth there was no period which was not transitional. The Greeks were too quickwitted and restless ever to endure a stage of stagnation such as other races have experienced. Yet, in the growth of rationalism we may perhaps detect a moment when it had rendered the disin- tegration of the old faith inevitable. This moment is the crucial one for our inquiry : it is the moment of Plato.
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