Bounded by impenetrable shadows to this world, they coveted all that in this world was most to be desired [59].

A short life is acceptable to Achilles, not if it lead to Elysium, but if it be accompanied with glory.

By degrees, however, prospects of a future state, nobler and more august, were opened by their philosophers to the hopes of the Greeks.

Thales was asserted to be the first Greek who maintained the immortality of the soul, and that sublime doctrine was thus rather established by the philosopher than the priest.

[60] XXII.