16 MARRIAGE AND HEREDITY 



feel nor speak of love as a passion. The same 

 austere views are expressed by Sophocles. Hsemon, 

 it is true, dies upon the tomb of Antigone, but from 

 his previous harangues it would be difficult to gather 

 that he had any affection for that heroine. Indeed, 

 when reproached by his father with being a woman's 

 slave, he repels the suggestion as an insult. How 

 differently Eacine, as a modern poet, makes Achilles 

 speak in defending Iphigenia ! A still more striking 

 proof of the divergence existing between the Greek 

 and the modern view of love is to be found in com- 

 paring the Antigone of Sophocles with the Kabale und 

 Liebe of Schiller. Ferdinand and Luise, like Hsemon 

 and Antigone, die together, but whereas the Greek 

 hero talks politics, the German lover proudly 

 vindicates the claims of passion. "Father," says 

 Ferdinand, "there is a region in my heart where 

 your authority has never penetrated ; do not dare to 

 enter there ! " Then after Luise's death, conducting 

 his father to her body, he exclaims : " Look, bar- 

 barian ! gloat over the results of your tyranny. 

 Death has written your name upon that face, and 

 there it shall be read by the destroying angels. 

 . . . May such a figure as this be by your tomb when 

 you rise again, and on God's right hand when you 



