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and philosophy it has passed into human litera- 

 ture, and is wrought into its finest structures. 

 It makes the solemn substance of the Iliad and 

 the Greek Drama. It pours a sombre light into 

 the brightness and grace of the Aeneid. It is the 

 theme of the Inferno, and is presupposed by both 

 of the other parts of the Divine Comedy. The 

 epic of Milton derives from it its awful grandeur. 

 And the greatest of the Shakespearean tragedies 

 sound and stir the depths of the human soul, by 

 their delineation of guilt intrinsic and eternal." 



