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We must remember that, according to Helbig, the Ionians, colonists in a new country, "had no use for ghosts." A fresh colony does not produce ghosts. This is a hasty generalisation! This colonial theory is one of Helbig's too venturous generalisations. He studies the ghost, or rather dream-apparition, of Patroclus after examining the funeral of Hector; but we shall begin with Patroclus.
A dream-apparition, like and unlike the image of Nature and her wooer, hovers forward; it condenses into more human shapes; it spreads out in response to its heroically triumphant will, and to a most delicious collapse and cessation of will: thus tragedy is born; thus life is presented with its grandest knowledge that of tragic thought; thus, at last, the greatest charmer and benefactor among mortals the dithyrambic dramatist is evolved.
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