44 LORD GRIMTHORPE 
be subject to all the great principles of right and justice always, 
whereas she will only have to live with Creon and those she is 
dealing with now for a short time. It is impossible for a play of 
that sort to be acted before an Athenian audience without a sense 
of responsibility lying very deep indeed in their hearts, and there 
are many signs of its existing similarly in that nation which had 
even a still stronger sense of righteousness than the Greeks, I 
mean the Romans; and I am not aware, | confess, of any early 
civilized nation or any nation that had the germ of civilization 
existing without a very strong apprehension in their minds, 
amounting to an abiding conviction, of a judgment in the next 
world, and of actions and conduct being rewarded or punished 
according to their virtue or vice. 
That is a consideration which, of course, only strengthens Lord 
Grimthorpe’s general arguments; and it is desirable to recognize 
that these great principles are, practically, human principles—you 
may find exceptions to them, but take human nature as a whole 
and you get a wonderful sense of responsibility hereafter as well 
as here. As to responsibility here it is well observed by Dr. Row, 
that everybody thinks everybody else responsible. There is a very 
good epilogue that [ remember reading in a Hindoostanee book. 
A sceptical Hindoo went to the Dervish and asked him to solve him 
three questions :—*‘ First of all,” he said, “ why should I believe 
in God? I cannot see Him—why should I believe in what I 
cannot see? You teach me as part of your religion in respect of 
a future world, that the evil spirit is tormented by fire, and you 
tell me, at the same time, that he is made of fire. How can he be 
tormented by that of which he is made? Thirdly, why should a man 
be punished for his actions when he is not responsible for thei ? ” 
The Dervish, instead of giving him an answer to his questions, took 
up a clod of mud and shied it at his head, which made the sceptic 
extremely angry, and he summoned the Dervish before the Cadi, 
who asked the Dervish what it meant. He said, “This man said he 
could not believe in what he could not see; let him show you the 
pain in Lis head before you take notice of it. He asked also how 
the evil spirit could be hurt by that of which he was made. He 
is made of mud, and I shied mud at him. Then he said men were 
not to be punished for their actions. Why does he want to punish 
me?” (Laughter and applause.) 
No doubt, as the last speaker has said, perhaps next to the fact 
