'If God precedes the world (to use a useful but inexact phrase) and all things are determined by his will, why should a benevolent being not take a course which spares his creatures pain? The atheistic or anti-theistic chorus in Atalanta in Calydon ("All we are against thee, against thee, O God, most high") is a classical expression of the human revolt against these unintelligible miseries.' (399-400)

'In Greek thought the 'lordship of the soul' is recognised;' (102)