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Updated: June 16, 2025
Slowly and reluctantly, Julien descended the slope leading to the chateau, and the gloom of the woods entered his heart. Jealousy is a maleficent deity of the harpy tribe; she embitters everything she touches. Ever since the evening that Julien had witnessed the crossing of the brook by Reine and Claudet, a secret poison had run through his veins, and embittered every moment of his life.
Witchcraft therefore, and the invocation of the spirits of the dead, might be practised with toleration; or at all events were not regarded otherwise than as venial deviations from the religion of the state. It is true, there must always have been a horror of secret arts, especially of such as were of a maleficent nature.
The important thing to observe is that among the Slavs the need-fire, which is probably the original of all the ceremonial fires now under consideration, is not a sun-charm, but clearly and unmistakably nothing but a means of protecting man and beast against the attacks of maleficent creatures, whom the peasant thinks to burn or scare by the heat of the fire, just as he might burn or scare wild animals.
If any one thinks that within the brief period of a generation the visible supply of labor can be enormously augmented without profoundly affecting the stability of things and disastrously touching the interests of wage-workers, let no rude voice dispel his dream of such maleficent agencies as his slumbrous understanding may joy to affirm.
Speech hath no utterance of surpassing fear, Tragedy holds no misery or woe, But our divinest essence soon shall taste. Ath. Alas, how dire a prelude to thy tale! Zeus. O brood maleficent, teemed from Earth's dark womb! And thou, Prometheus, how hast thou wrought me woe! Ath. Possess us; are not we thine own familiars? Zeus. With a whirr and a crash Let the levin-bolt dash Ah, whither? Hera.
Scholars know at what rate such accidents should be estimated, and value at its proper price one clear interpretation like G. O. M.= Gladstonio Optimo Maximo. It is, of course, no argument against this view that the authors of the Dirae regard Gladstone as a maleficent being. How could they do otherwise? They were the scribes of the opposed religion.
Certainly for Shelley there was never a doubt about the final triumph of good. One seems to meet this vague principle, this reverend Thing, in Shelley's Demogorgon, the shapeless, awful negation which overthrows the maleficent Jupiter, and with his fall inaugurates the golden age.
And now I will try to show the difference between this Determinism, which some think must prove so maleficent, and the Christian doctrine of Free Will, which many consider so beneficent. Let us take a flagrant instance of wrong-doing.
I do not pretend to know how the lowest savages evolved the theory of a God who reads the heart and 'makes for righteousness, It is as easy, almost, for me to believe that they 'were not left without a witness, as to believe that this God of theirs was evolved out of the maleficent ghost of a dirty mischievous medicine-man.
Nevertheless, He did speak of the 'whole lump' being gradually leavened, and we shall not exceed the limits of a reasonable and justifiable optimism if we hope that the accumulated experience of humanity, and perhaps a real though very slow modification for the better of human nature itself, may at last eliminate the wickedest and most insane of our maleficent institutions.
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