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The Delay of the Deity Unit f. do not see \vli;il nsr there is in the Baying thai the mills of the gods grind late, both because they ob scure justice and take away the fear of evil-doing. 1. Thereupon in reply to these remarks and while 1 \vas still absorbed in reflection, Tiinon said: "Shall 1 now add to the discussion the climax of my own perplexity or shall I pass it over until after the dis posal of the main argument?" What is the use." said I, "of sending along a third wave to wash away the subject matter, if it be found impossible to re fute and invalidate the tirst objection? First, then, beginning, as we say, at the ingle=side and with the caution of the philosophers of the Academy in regard to the divinity, let us beware of assuming that we know just what to say on this subject. In truth, an affair of more serious moment is the consideration of supernal and divine things, for us who are human be ings, than when one who has no ear for music dis cusses this art, or when one who has never served in the army discourses on military affairs; because, though ignorant of the plan of the artificer, w r e as sume to be able to fathom his designs from what we suppose to be probable and fitting. It is not hard for one unacquainted with the healing art to comprehend the reasoning of a physician as to why lie did not sooner perform a certain amputation rather than later, or why he ordered a bath yesterday and not to-day; in respect to God, on the other hand, it is not easy for a mortal to say any thing positive except that, know ing best the proper occasion for curing a man of hii 166
The Delay of the Deity vices, He administers to each person chastisements as medicaments, but not equally severe in all nor at one and the same time. cases For that the healing art when applied to the soul is called right and right eousness and is the greatest of all arts, Pindar in addi tion to thousands of others, affirms, when he calls God the ruler and custodian of the whole universe, the master builder, for the reason that He is the guard ian of justice according to which it shall be de termined when and how and to what degree every wicked man is to be punished. And of this art Plato says that Minos the son of Jove was a student, as it is not possible to properly dispense justice, or to recognize what is just unless one has learned and acquired a knowledge of the same. Not even the laws that men enact have always their clear and plain justification and some enactments even seem at first sight ridiculous. For instance, in Lacedaemon, the ephors, immediately upon taking office, issue an edict that no one is to wear a mustache and that the laws are to be obeyed in order that none may feel their severity. The Romans inflict a slight blow with a twig upon those whom they intend to emanci pate; and when they make a will they bequeath their property to some persons as their heirs, but sell it to others, which seems to be absurd. But most absurd one would think the law of Solon to be to the effect that he shall be deprived of civil rights, who, when there are parties and factions in the state, take sides with neither. In short, one could name many anomalies 167
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