Ethe

And it is a further proof of our view, that beginners in poetry attain completeness in expression and ethe [plural of ethos], before they are capable of composing the march of incidents; almost all the earliest poets are instances of this.

The relation between social groups and their ethe is rational; they vary in fixed ratios.

[…] it makes sense to say that these speeches are representations of their ethe.

Hereto, the hilles bene nigher heaven, / And thence the passage ethe; / As well can proove the piercing levin, / That seldome falles beneath.