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Clear and well defined, and if their writings are 

 consulted, they bear unmistakable testimony as 

 to the fact of future rewards and punishment. 



•' Tartarus, their fabled place of punishment 

 in the future world, the prison in which the 

 wicked suffered for their misdeeds, was, accord- 

 ing to their system, characterized by 'eternal 

 gloom and darkness.'" (Keightley's Classical 

 Mythology). 



" The very names of the rivers, whose mourn- 

 ful tides washed this dark abode, as Acheron, 

 river of 'eternal woe.' Pyriphlegethon, stream 

 of 'fire,' Cocytos, river of 'weeping and wail- 

 ing,' indicated this inexorableness in a manner 

 quite as strong as that of any express terms" 

 (Manual of Mythology, art. Hades, p. 59). 



Prof. Tayler Lewis thus describes the rigor and 

 certainty of the Grecian and Roman justice.. 

 ** The moral aspect (of classical mythology) may 

 be seen in many of the epithets of Zeus employed 

 by Homer and the Grecian tragic poets. It is 

 strongly manifested in that whole department of 

 mythology which has reference to the infernal 

 deities. It appears in the striking personifica- 

 tions of Nemesis, of Adrasta, or the Inescapable, 

 and of the ancient Themis, who is ever repre- 

 sented with the sword and scales, and sitting at. 

 the right hand of eternal justice in the heavens.. 

 It shows itself in the mythology of the Destinies } 



