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 26 THE CONNECTED WORSHIP OF DIONYSUS, &C. elements which they contained and to the readiness to adopt and appropriate the representative forms of human thought, which is universally characteristic of a plastic polytheism. We are now prepared to discuss the choral rites of the Doric Apollo, and to inquire into the circumstances under which the warlike dances of the northern Greeks came to be used in the celebration of reli- gious solemnities consecrated to the Semitic wine-god.