INDEX.
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A priori ideas, their definition, 7, 8; the source of myth, 9 Abstraction, unconscious and explicit, 138; its degrees, 139-150 Æschylus, 110 Alger on the doctrine of a future life, 74 Animals and man, their intimate connection, 19; their embryogenic evolution, 19; their complete identity, 22; their self-consciousness, 50; the projection of themselves on other animals and phenomena, 51, 53, 54, 55, 161; experiments on, 60-64 Animation of extrinsic phenomena, 28, 58-65, 111, 125-128 Anthropomorphism, 90, 97, 106, 181 Apprehension, act of, 116; by animals, 118; psychical law of, 119; three elements of, 120; by a man, 122-127 Arbrousset on the Basutos, 75 Aristotle, his teaching, 231 Aryan family, its primitive unity with the Semitic, 31; its mythology, 179, 197, 219; its conception of Christianity, 184-192 Bridgman, Laura, 207 Christ, the apotheosis of man, 187 Christianity, its diffusion, 178-192; its anthropomorphism, 181 Dead, the worship of, 15 Demoniacal beliefs, 77, 78, 79 Descartes, 234 Doric school, 211 Dreams, 253, 259, 270 Entification, the term, 153; of speech, 310 Eleatic school, 211 Epicarmos, 109 Evolution, of monotheism, 151; of the faculties of myth and science, 157; of language, 201-204; of writing, 209; of music, 295-303 Experiments on animals, 60-64 Fetish worship, 78,94-97, 163, 168, 291, 311 Finns, their mythology, 101 Galileo, 235 Greece, her philosophy, 210-217; her mythology, 99, 130 Hallucinations, 272, 281 Hawaïans, their concrete language, 86 Ionic school, 210 Kant, 233 M'Lennan on the worship of plants and animals, 73 Man, his intimate connection with animals, 19-23; his psychical force, 26; estimated according to his absolute value, 35; his power of reflection, 23, 52, 163; his connection with the universal system, 36 Mannhardt, his Deutsche Mythologie, 100 Max Müller, his theory of myth, 11, 99 Mara, incubus, 77 Monotheism, not the first intuition of man, 104 its evolution, 151 Multiplicity of souls, believed by various races, 165 Myth, the spontaneous form of human intelligence, 1; its persistence, 3, 33, 136; its germ interchangeable with that of science, 9, 131, 132; its problem unsolved, 12; its gradual disappearance, 33; its constant forms, 40; its origin in reflex power, 91; its second form, 95; its evolution into science, 113; its various stages, 160-174 Mythology, Indian, 10; Finnish, 101; Vedic, Greek, and Latin, 130, 198; its historic results, 175-192; Aryan, 179, 196, 219; Pagan, 184 Music, its evolution, 295-305 New Zealand, original meaning of words, 89 Perception, primitive human, 69; identical in man and in animals, 133; the product and cause of myth, 153 Personification, by animals, 66; by man, 80; of internal perceptions, 81; of homologous types, 81; of specific types, 84; Pindar, 199 Platonic school, 220-230 Polynesian language, 89 Polytheism, its origin, 98 Pythagorean school, 214-217 Reflex power in man, 23, 52; its slow growth, 163 Ribot, his Psychologie Allemande, 39 Roman mythology, 95 Sanscrit roots, 201 Science, a factor of intellectual life, 4; its germ interchangeable with myth, 9, 131, 132; as a whole, revealed in its several parts, 35; its effect on myth, 112, 194 Semitic idea, 177; race, 191 Social life based on the order of nature, 38 Societies, the genesis of, 30 Sociology, its foundation in the study of myth, 41, 45 Sophocles, 110 Spencer, his Sociology, 14 Tahiti, 89 Tasmanians, their customs, 42-44 Thales, his teaching, 212 Transmigration of souls, 166 Tylor on Primitive Culture, 14, 16; his theory of animism, 16 Veda, the personification of phenomena, 71; Vedic mythology, 76, 98, 130, 219; Vedic hymn, 217 Victory of the natural sciences, 237 Zeller on monotheism, 108