The Tree Of Mythology Its Growth And Fruitage

Excerpt from The Tree of Mythology, Its Growth and Fruitage: Genesis of the Nursery Tale, Saws of Folk-Lore, Etc The following essay comes as the fruit of a love, a predilection long felt for that realm of man's thought and imaginings which finds its expression in what is named Mythology. It introduces us, as the writer believes, to what is one of the most curious, and also significant chapters in the history of the human mind. Amid all that is fanciful, whimsical, childish, or seemingly idle and worthless, there is much, we might almost say everything, that is real, living, deeply vital in its interest for us all. This staircase from its humble homely beginnings, starting in the first dim dawnings of human thought and consciousness, leads to the starry heights, hints to us the sole mode of ascent to infinite and everlasting. The history reveals to us the glory and the shame of the human mind, its conquest and its defeat, tells of its grand possibility, and its mortifying, never ending failure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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