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...s, nor the rest were the discoverers of it. There is a truer amount of it in mythology than in any history of America, so called, that I have seen. H... ...ich no Au gustan nor Elizabethan age, which no culture, in short, can give. Mythology comes nearer to it than anything. How much more fertile a Natur... ...r to it than anything. How much more fertile a Nature, at least, has Grecian mythology its root in than English literature! Mythology is the crop whic...

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...ipt says, “The mo appelen the *Jotunheim (Ye(r)t’-un-hime) in Scandinavian mythology was the home of the Jotun or Giants. Loki was a descendant of the...

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...is day , re plies that he has no time for these ‘nice’ inter pretations of mythology, and he pities anyone who has. When you once begin there is no ... ... subjects of the Phaedrus (exclusive of the short introductory passage about mythology which is suggested by the local tradition) are first the false ... ...e, may seem to merit a more particular notice: (1) the locus classicus about mythology; (2) the tale of the grasshoppers. The first passage is remarka... ...able him to dis card them, and yet in another way to make use of poetry and mythology as a vehicle of thought and feeling. What would he have said of...

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...wn. There are so many half lights and cross lights, so much of the colour of mythology , and of the manner of sophistry adhering—rhetoric and poetry ,... ...elf, though in a different sense, he begins his discus sion by an appeal to mythology , and distinguishes between the elder and younger love. The val... ...ocrates pro ceeds to form his discourse, starting, as in other places, from mythology and the opinions of men. From Phaedrus he takes the thought tha... ... of the age. False sentiment is found in the Lyric and Elegiac poets; and in mythology ‘the greatest of the Gods’ (Rep.) is not exempt from evil imput...

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...d of the master is clearly visible in the myth. First in the connection with mythology;—he 27 Plato wins a kind of verisimilitude for this as for his... ...osophy; and still less have we any right to demand this of him in his use of mythology and figures of speech. And we observe that while employing all ... ...othing truer;’ or , as in the Statesman, he describes his work as a ‘mass of mythology ,’ which was introduced in order to teach certain lessons; or ,...

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...an we wonder that Plato in the infancy of human thought should have confused mythology and phi losophy, or have mistaken verbal arguments for real on... ...d at the end of the intellectual world’ ( Republic), he replaces the veil of mythology, and de scribes the soul and her attendant genius in the langu... ...which this retribution is accomplished Plato represents under the figures of mythology. Doubtless he felt that it was easier to improve than to invent... ...own. Then, as in the Gorgias or Republic, the curtain falls, and the veil of mythology descends upon the argument. After the confession of Socrates th...

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... the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages. History, Poetry, Mythology! I know of no reading of another’s experience so startling and i... ...rils (what kind of winged horse or fiery dragon they will put into the new Mythology I don’t know), it seems as if the earth had got a race now worthy... ...as a genius of unequalled fertility, and her memory runs back farther than mythology, and she can tell me the original of every fable, and on what fac... ...n man or Nature, to share any unmixed and heroic joy. Ancient poetry and mythology suggest, at least, that husbandry was once a sacred art; but it i... ... wood; ground famous for the pranks of a demon not distinctly named in old mythology, who has acted a prominent and astounding part in our New England... ... flocks which sometimes form and dissolve there. There we worked, revising mythology, rounding a fable here and there, and building castles in the air... ...f the ground; this is Spring. It precedes the green and flowery spring, as mythology precedes regular poetry. I know of nothing more purgative of wint...

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... “O, that Robinson Crusoe must have been a great prophet!” To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient his tory and biography. So far from bei... ...tury was equal to a thousand years. The poet is he who can write some pure mythology to day without the aid of posterity. In how few words, for instan... ...oirs to serve for a history,” which itself is but materials to serve for a mythology. How many volumes folio would the Life and Labors of Prometheus h... ...Him that made him? 51 HenryDavidThoreau One memorable addition to the old mythology is due to this era,—the Christian fable. With what pains, and tea... ..., and tears, and blood these centuries have woven this and added it to the mythology of mankind. The new Prometheus. With what miraculous consent, and... ...the memory of the race! It would seem as if it were in the progress of our mythology to de throne Jehovah, and crown Christ in his stead. If it is no... ...receded them. The mythological system of the ancients, and it is still the mythology of the moderns, the poem of mankind, interwo ven so wonderfully ... ... two or three essays on this subject in all literature. No wonder that the Mythology, and Arabian Nights, and Shakespeare, and Scott’s novels entertai... ... being converted by the precepts of a newer testament; when he forgets his mythology, and treats his Friend like a Christian, or as he can afford; the...

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...de its primary value as the first chapter of the history of Eu- rope, (the mythology thinly veiling authentic facts, the invention of the mechanic art... ...close- ness to the faith of later ages. Prometheus is the Jesus of the old mythology. He is the friend of man; stands be- tween the unjust “justice” o... ...f *St. Augustine, Confessions, B. I. 59 Emerson its moral aim. The Indian mythology ends in the same ethics; and it would seem impossible for any fab... ...ense that the evils of the world are such only to the evil eye. In the old mythology, mythologists observe, defects are ascribed to divine natures, as... ...nning, and too bad for blessing, it reminds us of a tradition of the pagan mythology, in any attempt to settle its character. ‘I overheard Jove, one d... ...an Aeolian harp,—and this supernatural tiralira restores to him the Dorian mythology, Apollo, Diana, and all divine hunters and huntresses. Can a musi... ...- ity is a most unfit tribute to Pan, who ought to be repre- sented in the mythology as the most continent of gods. I would not be frivolous before th...

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...e of the good government of a State. In the discussion about religion and mythology, Adeimantus is the respondent, but Glaucon breaks in with a slig... ...it is useful and is a sort of medicine or preventive; also in the tales of mythology, of which we were just now speak ing—because we do not know the... ...igible if I put the matter in this way. You are aware, I suppose, that all mythology and poetry is a narra tion of events, either past, present, or t... ...t you failed to apprehend before is now made clear to you, that poetry and mythology are, in some cases, wholly imitative — instances of this are supp... ... sort? An ideal image of the soul, like the composite creations of ancient mythology, such as the Chimera or Scylla or Cerberus, and there are many o...

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...constant process of growth and transmutation; sometimes veiled in poetry and mythology , then again emerging as fixed Ideas, in some passages regarded...

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..., and may be compared with his condemnation of the same arts when applied to mythology in the Phaedrus, and with his other parodies, e.g. with the two...

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... vation. He lived before the days of Comparative Philology or of Comparative Mythology and Re ligion, which would have opened a new world to him. He ...

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...dy half spider, wretched 1 Lucifer. 2 Examples from classic and biblical mythology alternate. 3 Apollo, so called from his temple at Thymbra, not f...

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...ure represented, whether taken from bibli- cal or profane history, or from mythology; and, even if I did not always hit upon the meaning of allegorica... ...itness, led me hither and thither; when the medley of fable and his- tory, mythology and religion, threatened to bewilder me,—I liked to take refuge i...

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...the little horse- shoes on the lower branches. Why has not England a great mythology? our folklore has never advanced beyond daintiness, and the great...

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... you, and you may take it as extracted out of the profoundest mysteries of mythology, that, when the giants had enterprised the waging of a war agains...

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...e: The following translation was undertaken from a desire to lay before the English-speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns. A brief description of this peculiar people, and of their ethical, linguistic, social, and religious life, seems to be called for here in order that the fol...

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... English speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns. A bri... ...re has been taken in rendering these finely shaded verbs. A glance at the mythology of this interesting people will place the import of this remark i... ..., but at the same time were connected with them. The basic idea in Finnish mythology seems to lie in this: that all objects in nature are governed by ... ... tain, by the wicked hostess of the dismal Sariola, he, like Atlas in the mythology of Greece, relinquishes the support of the heavens, thunders alon... ...s an object in nature. Wisdom and law, virtue and justice, find in Finnish mythology no protector among the gods, who trouble themselves only about th... ...d ing snows and piercing winds of the north. Lemmas is a god dess in the mythology of the Finns who dresses the wounds of her faithful sufferers, an... ...with hungry whirlpools, and angry waterfalls. Like Helheim of Scandinavian mythology, Manala, or T uonela, was considered as corresponding to the uppe... ... him over the Finnish Styx, like Charon, the son of Erebus and Nox, in the mythology of Greece. The second daughter of T uoni is Lowyatar, black and b... ...y escape and go forth to torture and slay the children of men; as in Hindu mythology, Kali (black) sits in judgment on the dead. Various other spiritu...

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...r- winian, post-Schopenhaurian philosophy; Wagner in terms of polytheistic mythology; and Ibsen in terms of mid-XIX century Parisian dramaturgy. Nothi...

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...lysis of Mind have thus invested their doctrine with an air of mystery and mythology which forms a large part of its popular attractive- ness. They sp...

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...the notion of a spontaneous normal development of these activities is pure mythology. The natural, or native, pow- ers furnish the initiating and limi...

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... Muhammad derived his doctrines of the Genii from the Persian and In- dian mythology, and attempted to identify them with the 231 The Koran Satan and...