The Classic Myths in English Literature: Based Chiefly on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable". (1855).Charles Mills Gayley |
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... existence , we observe that they are of two kinds explanatory and æsthetic . ( 1 ) Explanatory myths are the outcome of naïve guesses at the truth , of mistaken and superstitious attempts to satisfy the curi- osity of primitive and ...
... existence , we observe that they are of two kinds explanatory and æsthetic . ( 1 ) Explanatory myths are the outcome of naïve guesses at the truth , of mistaken and superstitious attempts to satisfy the curi- osity of primitive and ...
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... existence , and how it is that the same myth meets us under various forms in literatures and among peoples widely separate in time and place . These are questions of the Origin and Distribution of myths ; and in this chapter we shall ...
... existence , and how it is that the same myth meets us under various forms in literatures and among peoples widely separate in time and place . These are questions of the Origin and Distribution of myths ; and in this chapter we shall ...
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... existence . - Imagination . If we assume that the peoples who invented these stories of supernatural beings and events had , with due allowance for the discrepancy in mental development , imagina- tions like our own , there is nothing ...
... existence . - Imagination . If we assume that the peoples who invented these stories of supernatural beings and events had , with due allowance for the discrepancy in mental development , imagina- tions like our own , there is nothing ...
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... existence of myths , and his acceptance of them . § 6. Unreasonable Myths . - But he would maintain this atti- tude of acceptance only in the matter of good and beneficent gods and of righteous or reasonable myths . ― For how could a ...
... existence of myths , and his acceptance of them . § 6. Unreasonable Myths . - But he would maintain this atti- tude of acceptance only in the matter of good and beneficent gods and of righteous or reasonable myths . ― For how could a ...
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... existence . The custom of worshipping ancestors , still existent in China and other countries , is adduced in support of this method of investi- gating myths , and it is undoubtedly true that the method explains the origin and growth of ...
... existence . The custom of worshipping ancestors , still existent in China and other countries , is adduced in support of this method of investi- gating myths , and it is undoubtedly true that the method explains the origin and growth of ...
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