genius, and also the right choice of subjects,
the man of nature opposed to civilised man,
man under the sway if despotism,
man bowed down beneath the yoke of tyranny,
father, mothers, husbands and wives,
the most sacred, the gentlest, the most violent,
the most universal bonds, the evils of society,
the ineluctable laws of destiny,
the consequences of the great passions: