Whence it follows that after all these abstractions there will remain something to represent--man; after these tragedies and comedies, something to create--the drama.
In the drama, as it may be conceived at least, if not executed, all things are connected and follow one another as in real life.

The body plays its part no less than the mind; and men and events, set in motion by this twofold agent, pass across the stage, burlesque and terrible in turn, and sometimes both at once.

Thus the judge will say: "Off with his head and let us go to dinner!" Thus the Roman Senate will deliberate over Domitian's turbot.

Thus Socrates, drinking the hemlock and discoursing on the immortal soul and the only God, will interrupt himself to suggest that a cook be sacrificed to _AEsculapius_.

Thus Elizabeth will swear and talk Latin.