Demonology and devil-lore . ure appeared with all their force in man,and renewed their power with the fine armoury of his intel-ligence. He must here contend with tempests of passion,stony selfishness, and the whole animal creation nestling^ Mr. W. W, Lloyds Age of Pericles, vol. ii. p. 202. THE DEVIL OF LUST. 403 in heart and brain, prowling still, though on two feet. Thetheory of evolution is hardly a century old as science, butit is an ancient doctrine of Religion. The fables of Pilpayand ^Esop represent an early recognition of * to original types was recognised as a my
Demonology and devil-lore . ure appeared with all their force in man,and renewed their power with the fine armoury of his intel-ligence. He must here contend with tempests of passion,stony selfishness, and the whole animal creation nestling^ Mr. W. W, Lloyds Age of Pericles, vol. ii. p. 202. THE DEVIL OF LUST. 403 in heart and brain, prowling still, though on two feet. Thetheory of evolution is hardly a century old as science, butit is an ancient doctrine of Religion. The fables of Pilpayand ^Esop represent an early recognition of * to original types was recognised as a mysticalphenomenon in legends of the bandit turned wolf, andother transformations. One of the oldest doctrines ofEschatology is represented in the accompanying picture(Fig. 26), from Thebes, of two dog-headed apes ferryingover to Hades a gluttonous soul that has been weighedbefore Osiris, and assigned his appropriate form. The devils of Lust are so innumerable that severalvolumes would be required to enumerate the legends and. Fig. 26.—A Souls Doom (Wilkinson). superstitions connected with them. But, fortunately formy reader and myself, these, more than any other class ofphantoms, are very slight modifications of the same innumerable phallic deities, the incubi and succubae,are monotonous as the waves of the ocean, which mightfairly typify the vast, restless, and stormy expanse of sexualnature to which they belong. In The Golden Legend there is a pleasant tale of agentleman who, having fallen into poverty, went into soli-tude, and was there approached by a chevalier in black,mounted on a fine horse. This knight having inquiredthe reason of the others sadness, promised him that, if hewould return home, he would find at a certain place vast ,404 CELIBACY. sums of gold ; but this was on condition that he shouldbring his beautiful wife to that solitary spot in exactly ayears time. The gentleman, having lived in greater splen-dour than ever during the year, asked his wife t
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