IURIPIDES-A QUESTIONER As an artist he surpassed all his' I
(Continued from Page 1) contemporaries only in picturesque-
vices and transgressions of women." ness, natural imagery and character
If any one can ,point out an instance portrayal. In the last mentioned he
of his pity for -the vices and trans- has no superior in any age. He does :
gressionsof any one, man or woman, not portray the length and shape of
I should like to receive the informa- the lips or distance between the eyes,
tion. I'think this notion is party due but rather he pierces through the
to the fact that Euripides often chose veneer to look into the swell an
to depict women characters that were surge of instincts, impulses, desires
what society terms "wicked." These that play a waying network among
women were placed in a situation in the fires that smoulder, flash, , and.
which they became a prey to terrible scorch, then die, leaving the man o
woman chill and astark, His fic
an conflicting emotions. The out-is m asiolifesank.hesto c
standing example Is Medea torn be- nsind, passion, life, and he touche
tween love.for her children and the skilled weaver in patterns of cenda
desire'to revenge the wrongs and be-
trayal of Jason. The poet took this silks.
elemental savage woman into the . I rlE MINDIN THE MAKING"?
suave Greek civilization. Then the
man' she had blindly and passion- ' (Continued from Page 4)
ately followed deserted her for his own moods alien to clear analysis and
advancement. Her erage, suffering, reasonable readjustments.
and revenge are terrible. Jason, that I Those who have studied the char-
predecessor of a long line of fictitious acteristics of savage life are always
progeny, who tries to disentangle him- struck by its deadly conservatism, its
self from the meshes of yet sdrviving needless restraints on the freedom of
passion in the woman, is not more the individual, and its hopeless
sympthetically drawn than is Medea. routine. * * * One who prides
himself today on his conservation, on
Love of truth, contempt of artificial ths,
station, and sympathy for. the lesser e ground that man is naturally a
beings of society-break through the anarchic and disorderly creature who
surface of is moat romantic dreams. os held in check by the farseeing
A flood of beauty is often checked Tory, is almost exactly reversing the
while the sage speaks through one
of his characters car choruses. .At stature and rhimself an raes et
times, howesver, the imagination of change which have served to keep
the .poet ran riot leaving bewitching hin in a state of savagery during al-
magic in its wake. Thus the poet . most his whole existence on the earth,°
who condemns all phantoms and de- and which still perpetuate all sorts of
lusions that lead men astray, is guilty primitive barbarism in modern society.
of creating others of even more taunt- The conservative "on principle" is
ing allurements. Try as he would he therefore a most unmistakably primi-
could not shrivel into an abstraction tive person in his attitude. His only
to be labelled "Romanticist," "Real- advance beyond the savage naood lies
ist," , "Rationalist" and tucked away in the specious reasons he is able to
for posterity. He was entirely a hu- advance for remaining, of the same
man being, denouncing one moment mind. What we vaguely call a "radi-
the thing he became next; hating in cal" is a very recent product due to al-
aspiration what intrigued him into together exceptional and unprecedent-
achievem.ent; incongrous in dispoasi- ed circumstances.
tion but always steadfast in purpose. (To he contnued next Sunday)
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