irit of Light, moral and physical, by name the
"Physician-Destroyer," bearing arrows in his hand, and a lyre;
pre-eminently the destroyer of human pride, and the guide of human
harmony. Physically, Lord of the Sun; and a mountain Spirit,
because the sun seems first to rise and set upon hills.

2. The Spirit of helpful Darkness--of shade and rest. Night the
Restorer.

3. The Spirit of Wisdom in _Conduct_, bearing, in sign of conquest
over troublous and disturbing evil, the skin of the wild goat, and
the head of the slain Spirit of physical storm. In her hand, a
weaver's shuttle, or a spear.

4. The Spirit of Wisdom in _Arrangement_; called the Lord or Father
of Truth: throned on a four-square cubit, with a measuring-rod in
his hand, or a potter's wheel.

5. The Spirit of Wisdom in _Adaptation_; or of serviceable labor:
the Master of human effort in its glow; and Lord of useful fire,
moral and physical.

6. The Spirit, first of young or nascent grace, and then of
fulfilled beauty: the wife of the Lord of Labor. I have taken the
two lines in which Homer describes her girdle, for the motto of
these essays: partly in memory of these outcast fancies of the
great masters: and partly for the sake of a meaning which we shall
find as we go on.

7. The Spirit of pure human life and gladness. Master of wholesome
vital passion; and physically, Lord of the Vine.

37. From these ludicrous notions of motive force, inconsistent as they
are with modern physiology and organic chemistry, we may, nevertheless,
hereafter gather, in the details of their various expressions, something
useful to us. But I grieve to say that when our provoking teachers
descend from dreams about the doings of Gods to assertions respecting
the deeds of Men, little beyond the blankest discouragement is to be had
from them. Thus, they represent the ingenuity, and deceptive or
imitative Arts of men, under the type of a Master who builds labyrinths,
and makes images of living creatures, for evil purposes, or for none;
and pleases himself and the people with idle jointing of toys, and
filling of them with quicksilver motion; and brings his child to
foolish, remediless catastrophe, in fancying his father's work as good,
and strong, and fit to bear sunlight, as if it had been God's work. So,
again, they represent the foresight and kindly zeal