““The Greeks would, as it were, devote festivals to all their passions and evil natural inclinations… they took these human, all too human aspects of themselves to be unavoidable and, instead of reviling them, preferred to accord them a sort of right of the second rank by integrating them into the customs of society… Rather than repudiating the natural drive that expresses itself in nasty qualities, they regulate it and restrict it to certain cults and days, after having discovered sufficient precautionary measures to be able to grant those wild waters as harmless an outflow as possible.””
