Note 86 — Chapter III · FIRE AND FOOD Part I.
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Op. cit., p. 62. It is interesting to see how Müller, towards the end of the passage quoted, cannot help implying that it is the gods’ jealousy of man’s intellect that brings down the curse on mankind, and not the hero of civilisation himself by his innovations. This shows how even an enlightened scholar, hot as he is upon the scent, is blinded by the nineteenth-century prepossession in favour of modern civilisation.