Scientifically and philosophically He became the first cause of the world; He became the father of the human soul, and its judge; and what is more, its rest and its delight, and its desire.
Under the light of this conception, man appeared an ampler being.

His thoughts were for ever being gazed on by the great controller of all things; he was made in the likeness of the Lord of lords; he was of kin to the power before which all the visible world trembled; and every detail in the life of a human soul became vaster, beyond all comparison, than the depths of space and time.

But not only did the sense of man's dignity thus develop, and become definite.

The accompanying sense of his degradation became intenser and more definite also.

The gloom of a sense of sin is to be found in AEschylus, but this gloom was vague and formless.