text: MY YOUNG ALCIDES
  
  A FADED PHOTOGRAPH 
  
  by 
  
  Charlotte M. Yonge 
  
  PREFACE 
  
  Ideas have a tyrannous power of insisting on being worked out, even when one fears they may be leading in a track already worthily preoccupied. 
  But the Hercules myth did not seem to me to be like one of the fairy tales that we have seen so gracefully and quaintly modernised; and at the risk of seeming to travestie the Farnese statue in a shooting-coat and wide-awake, I could not help going on, as the notion grew deeper and more engrossing. 
  For, whether the origin of the myth be, or be not, founded on solar phenomena, the yearning Greek mind formed on it an unconscious allegory of the course of the Victor, of whom the Sun, rejoicing as a giant to run his course, is another type, like Samson of old, since the facts of nature and of history are Divine parables.
tokens: MY YOUNG ALCIDES A FADED PHOTOGRAPH by Charlotte M. Yonge PREFACE Ideas have a tyrannous power of insisting on being worked out , even when one fears they may be leading in a track already worthily preoccupied . But the Hercules myth did not seem to me to be like one of the fairy tales that we have seen so gracefully and quaintly modernised ; and at the risk of seeming to travestie the Farnese statue in a shooting - coat and wide - awake , I could not help going on , as the notion grew deeper and more engrossing . For , whether the origin of the myth be , or be not , founded on solar phenomena , the yearning Greek mind formed on it an unconscious allegory of the course of the Victor , of whom the Sun , rejoicing as a giant to run his course , is another type , like Samson of old , since the facts of nature and of history are Divine parables .
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