human emotions needed to be tempered down , she always thought , as if the water used to cool them were not enoughthat that purgation which might lead to a calm self united enough to take on any enemy could put one under a hegemony of emotions like that of a tyrantwho ? an oligarch , let 's say , who ruled over a nation of slavesthat purgation could leave a human being out like a plate of flood to be devoured by a hungry alienhuh ?