Note 66 — Of Angels and Archangels. (continued 2)

Dr. Arnold has some characteristic remarks on the half-human effigies of Satan; he objects to the Miltonic representation:—‘By giving a human likeness, and representing him as a bad man, you necessarily get some image of what is good, as well as of what is bad, for no man is entirely evil.’—‘The hoofs, the horns, the tail, were all useful in this way, as giving you an image of something altogether disgusting; and so Mephistophiles, and the utterly contemptible and hateful character of the Little Master in Sintram, are far more true than the Paradise Lost.’—Life, vol. ii.