lar, and have sought to
tear it into fragments. It is possible that some few lines may have
been interpolated, but it remains an organic whole, and the final
insight into it comes from viewing it in its total constructive
movement.

As the Book is an effort to make a bridge between the sensible and
supersensible realms, manifestly this separation into two realms will
constitute the fundamental division. The diremption into soul and body,
into life and death, runs through the entire narrative, also that into
men and women; but the main distinction is into Past and Present. The
sensible world when canceled becomes Past, the distant in Time and
possibly in Space; this Past through its characters, its spirits, is
made to communicate with the Present.

Moreover the Past has its distinctions. To the Greek mind of Homer's
age, specially in Phaeacia, the Trojan War is the grand central fact of
the aforetime; thus the Past divides into the Pre-Trojan, Trojan, and
immediate Past, in the Book before us. A complete sweep down into the
Now is given--the sweep of the supersensible. Also the Present has two
representatives: Ulysses along with his companions, and the Phaeacians.

In the Past, therefore, is arranged a long gallery of souls speaking to
the Present, which listens and also has its communication. The problem
now is to get a structural form which will hold the idea. Let the
following scheme be sent in advance, which scheme, however, can only be
verified or understood at the close of the Book on a careful review.

I. The first great communication of the dead and past to the living and
present, by voice and by vision; some speak, others are only seen.

1. The present and living element is made up of Ulysses and his
companions who are invoking by their rites and prayers the souls of the
Underworld. The companion Elpenor dead, but not yet buried, forms the
transition between the Present and Past.

2. The past and dead element, Pre-Trojan, is called up in two general
forms: the ancient seer Tiresias who is both Past and Future through
his mind, and, secondly, the souls of Famous Women, who pass in review
before the Present. The hint of a world-justice runs through both the
prophecies of the seer and the destinies of some of these women.

II. The second grand communication of the dead and past, now Trojan--to
the living and present, now Phaeacian prominently, given by voice and
vision.

1. The Present is here not only Uly