y follow out in order. There is also a third portion, the return
of Eumaeus from the palace to the hut, which portion is short and
unimportant.

I. Telemachus arrives at the hut of the swineherd, the dogs give him a
friendly greeting in contrast to that which they give to Ulysses--a
fact which shows that the youth must have been in times past a good
deal with Eumaeus. Also the affectionate meeting of the two suggests the
same thing. Herein we note a reason for Pallas sending him hither--the
Goddess and the youth coincided. Of course the conversation soon turns
toward the stranger present, the disguised Ulysses. Now occurs a subtle
movement between father and son who are to be brought together.

(1) First they are in a state of separation, but the disguised Ulysses
holds the bond of unification in his power. Eumaeus first tells to
Telemachus the fictitious Cretan story concerning the stranger; then
Ulysses gives a note of his true self: "Would that I were Ulysses' son
or the hero himself!" What then? "I would be an evil to those Suitors."
Thus the father secretly stirs the spirit of the son, in fact
spiritually identifies himself. The son sends off the swineherd on an
errand to Penelope, in order to announce his safe arrival from his
journey to the mainland. In this way one obstacle is removed--the
swineherd; now the second obstacle, the disguise is to be stripped
away.

(2) Herewith occurs a divine intervention, hinting the importance of
the present moment. Pallas appears to Ulysses, "but Telemachus beheld
her not;" Why? "For not by any means are the Gods manifest to all men."
As already stated, Ulysses has the key of the situation, and sees what
is now to be done; Telemachus does not see and will not see till his
father's disguise be removed. So again the Goddess Pallas appears to
the wise man and addresses him because the two are one in thought; no
other person not in this oneness of the human and divine can see her.
In like manner Pallas appears to Achilles, "seen by him alone," in the
First Book of the Iliad; similar too is the case of Telemachus when
Pallas comes to him among the Suitors under the form of Mentes in the
First Book of this Odyssey (see p. 26).

But just here is added a fact in strangest contrast with the foregoing
view; "The dogs (as well as Ulysses) saw the Goddess; they barked not,
but ran off whining through the gate in the opposite direction." In the
old Teutonic faith (and probably Aryan) th