had a clear eye for the commonest things. Hiswas only an enlarged . He adverts with chaste severity to all natural facts. His sublimity is Greek sincerity and simpleness, naked wonder whichhad not helped to explain... Whatever the common eye sees at all and expresses as best it may, he sees uncommonly and describes with rare completeness. The multitude that thronged the theatre could no doubt go along with him to the end... The social condition of genius is the same in all ages. Aeschylus was undoubtedly alone and without sympathy in his simple reverence for the mystery of the universe.