Note 167 — Chapter III · LEADING CONCEPTIONS OF THE ELEMENTARY RELIGION—continued II.—Naturism
Joseph Ward Swain translation
Lectures on the Science of Language, II, p. 456 ff.; Physic. Rel., pp. 276 ff.—Also Bréal, Mélanges, p. 6, "To bring the necessary clarity into this question of the origin of mythology, it is necessary to distinguish carefully the gods, which are the immediate product of the human intelligence, from the fables, which are its indirect and involuntary product."