In one of the most sublime presentations of piety the Allfi le of Sophocles this quality is therefore declared to be primarily the law of woman, and it is presented as the law of emotive elllpfill ld and subjective substantiality, of inwardness which has not yet been fully actualized, as the law of the ancient gods and of the chthonic realm des Uuterirdisc as an eternal law of which no one knows whence it came, and in opposition to the public law, the law of the state an opposition of the highest order in ethics and therefore in tragedy, and one which is individualized in femininity and masculinity in the same play; Phenomenology of Spirit, pp.