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The Delay of the Deity unjust and merciless he turned out to be gentle and kindly, when he had got into power. If this is not certain, we know, at least, that Gelo and Hiero, both Sicilians, and Peisistratus the son of Hippokrates, all men who had put themselves at the head of af fairs by base methods, used their power for the fur therance of virtuous ends; and though they had at tained power illegally, they nevertheless became just and popular rulers. They promoted good order and the cultivation of the soil; made temperate and in dustrious citizens out of men who had been gossipers and idlers; and Gelo, after righting bravely and de feating the Carthaginians in a great battle, would not make the peace with them which they sued for until they had pledged themselves to cease from sacrificing their children to Kronos. In Megalopolis, Lydiades was a usurper; but when at the height of his power a change came over him and, having conceived a loathing for iniquity, he gave a constitution to the citizens, then in a battle with the enemies of his country met a glorious death. If some one had slain the ursurper Miltiades in the Chersonesus, or had prosecuted Kimon for incest with his sister, or had driven Themistocles from the city by an indictment, when he was indulging in drunken revelries and in sulting people in the market place, as was afterwards done with Alkibiades, would we not have lost the and fair heroes of Marathon, of the Eurymedon Artemisium, where the sons of the Athenians laid the glorious corner-stone of liberty? 172 Men cast in a large
" " " The Delay of the Deity mold neither do anything in a small way, nor do the vehemence and energy of their titanic natures suffer them to be inactive; but they are tossed to and fro like a ship on the waves until they settle down into a fixed and well-grounded character. Just as a person who was ignorant of agriculture would not take a fancy to land, if he saw it overgrown with \veeds and brambles, full of wild animals, running water and marshes; while to one who has learned to discriminate and to judge, these very things show the strength and goodness of the soil; so men cast in a large mold com mit irregularities and follies men whose volcanic and vehement natures we cannot endure, and think they ought to be cut off or kept in check. But the better judge, he who in spite of these things discerns innate worth and nobility, waits until age and matur ity become the co-workers of reason and virtue, when nature shall bring forth her proper fruit." 7. So much, then, on this point. And do you not think certain of the Greeks have done wisely in adopting the Egyptian law that forbids the execution of a woman condemned to death during pregnancy, until after her delivery?" "Most assuredly," they said. If then," said I, a person is big, not with a child, but with a deed or a secret project which he may in the course of time bring into the world and put into execution, or if he might disclose some hidden crime, or be the author of some judicious counsel or the discoverer of some useful invention, would it not be better to await a seasonable time for 173
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