The exception was the trick of tying 300 foxes by their tails, two by two, with firebrands between and turning them loose to burn the corn of the Philistines.

An ingenious way to spread a conflagration, probably, but primitive, decidedly primitive.

Herakles was a scientific engineer of the modern school; he yoked the rivers Alpheus and Peneus to his service by turning their waters through the Augean stables and cleansing them of the deposits of 3000 oxen for thirty years.

Herakles had excellent intellectual training; Rhadamanthus taught him wisdom and virtue, Linus music.

We know nothing about the bringing up of Samson save that "the child grew and the Lord blessed him.