...goddess sprang forth. Life will always be the nobler for those early impressions. There were the gods too in their grandeur; the Zeus had his more than lionlike majesty, but it was especially the Hera and Athena that suggested grander spheres. It was as if I had ascended Mount Olympus and said, This then is a man; that is a woman! Afterwards I lived for some years in the house which held Re...