s left
without paternal training.

II. Next let us glance at the individual. Ulysses, released from
domestic life and civil order, gives himself up to destroying domestic
life and civil order, though they be those of the enemy. For ten years
he pays no respect to Property, Family and State in Troy; he is trained
into their annihilation, and finally does annihilate them. Yet his
object is to restore Helen, to vindicate Family and State, and even
Property.

III. Troy is destroyed because it was itself destructive; it assailed
the Greek domestic and civil institutions in the rape of Helen. So the
destroying city itself is destroyed, but this leaves Ulysses a
destroyer in deed and in spirit; home and country he is not only
separated from but is destructive of--he is a negative man.

The previous three paragraphs contain the leading presuppositions of
the Odyssey, and show the first half of the life of Ulysses. They
indicate three phases of the working of the negative--in Ithaca, in
Troy, and in Ulysses. But now that Troy is destroyed, how will Ulysses
return to institutional life, which he has destroyed in Troy, in
himself, and, through his absence, in Ithaca?

IV. The Return must in the first place be within himself, he must get
rid of the destructive spirit begotten of war. For this purpose he has
the grand training told in his adventures; he must put down the
monsters of Fableland, Polyphemus, Circe, Charybdis; he must endure the
long servitude under Calypso; he must see Phaeacia. When he is
internally ready, he can go forth and destroy the Suitors, destroy them
without becoming destructive himself, which was his outcome at Troy.
For the destruction of Troy left him quite as negative as the Suitors,
of which condition he is to rid himself ere he can rid Ithaca of the
Suitors. This destruction thus becomes a great positive act, now he
restores Family and State, and brings peace and harmony.

One result of separating from the Family is that the son Telemachus has
not the training given by the father. But the son shows his blood; he
goes forth and gets his own training, the best of the time. This is
told in the Telemachiad. Thus he can co-operate with his father.

_The movement overarching the Odyssey._ The reader will note that in
the preceding account we have tried to unfold the movement of the
Odyssey as the return from the Trojan War. But as already stated, it is
itself but a part of a larger movement, a segment