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[22] That is, you must allow for the recoil. "Naturam expellas

furca tamen usque recurret."

P. 43, l. 2. This illustration sets in so clear a light the

doctrines entertained respectively by Aristotle, Eudoxus, and the

Stoics regarding pleasure, that it is worth while to go into it

fully.

The reference is to Iliad iii. 154-160. The old counsellors, as

Helen comes upon the city wall, acknowledge her surpassing

beauty, and have no difficulty in understanding how both nations

should have incurred such suffering for her sake still, fair as

she is, home she must go, that she bring not ruin on themselves

and their posterity.