Note 130 — Chapter VII · DEMOCRACY AND STANDARDS
Reading edition
The passage of the Antigone (vv. 450 ff.) needs to be associated with the passage of the Œdipus (vv. 863 ff.): “... laws that in the highest empyrean had their birth, of which Heaven is the father alone, neither did the race of mortal men beget them, nor shall oblivion ever put them to sleep. The power of God is mighty in them and groweth not old.”