Note 489 — Chapter XVIII · BABYLON
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According to Dr. Fries, an eminent German scholar, all games of ball are traceable back to an old light myth which was presumably Babylonian in origin: “Alles Ballspiel,” he writes, “ja bis herab zum Lawn-Tenis auf denselben Gedanken-den Lichtkampf-zurückgeht.” Studien zur Odyssee, Vol. I, p. 324 (Leipsic, 1910).