 Prometheus is, as it were, the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends.  Littell's Living Age - Page 661848Full view - About this book
 | Timothy Clark - 1989 - 320 pages
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 | G. H. Von Wright - 1993 - 278 pages
...All human skill and science was Prometheus' gift. How then can one understand that Prometheus, this 'type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends', as Shelley says, be both punished by Zeus for his... | |
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