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»To us moderns for whom the breach which divides the human and the divine has deepened into an impassible gulf such mimicry may appear impious, but it was otherwise with the ancients. To their thinking gods and men were akin, for many families traced their descent from a divinity, and the deification of a man probably seemed as little extraordinary to them as the canonisation of a saint seems to a modern catholic.« Frazer, Golden Bough, I. The magic art and the evolution of kings, II, p.
Is this a vision which I see, Or am I now set free from long delusion? Has morning truly dawned on me? See, there he stands, his face with sorrow clouding He tells me all his mingled hope and fear; Is it the voice of sympathy that cheats me? As he has oft in dreams, so stands he here! The sorrow which within my breast is burning Ah, this compassion, what dare I call it?
Are there no sweethearts on the strand Awaiting you from foreign land? Sie sind schon alt und bleich statt roth, Und ihre Liebsten, die sind todt. Ah, well! their sweethearts on the strand Died while they were in foreign land. He, Seeleut’! Seeleut’! wacht doch auf! Wir bringen Euch Speis’ und Trank zu Hauf! Ho! sailors! ho! don’t be lazy boys! Come, partake of our frolicking joys!
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Her arms and legs were entwined with the shining entrails of an heifer: from her neck there hung a pouch composed of the stomach of a kid: the wings of an ostrich overshadowed the fleshy promontories behind; and before she wore an apron formed of the shaggy ears of a lion. Mit dem Schrecklichen scheinet sich das Ekelhafte noch inniger vermischen zu können.
Ich erwähne speziell noch Spencer, für den die Komik beruht auf einer "descending incongruity"; einem unvermerkten Übergang "from great things to small".
In Germany a similar rigmarole runs as follows: The pears having refused to fall from a certain tree, the owner sent successively for a boy, dog, stick, fire, water, calf, butcher and hangman. All refuse to do his bidding, so he calls the Devil. He is ready enough to carry off the hangman, who prepares to hang the butcher.
»That belief is a philosophy far from primitive.« A. Lang, Secret of the Totem, p.
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Ehe sich das Geschrei legte ließ sich natürlich an ein gegenseitiges Verständniß nicht denken, den ersten Ruhepunkt aber benutzend, setzte der Amerikaner wieder das Rohr an die Lippen, und der, dem Laien zum ersten Mal gewiß unverständliche Seeruf, der durch den wunderlich dröhnenden Schall des metallenen Rohres nur noch verworrener wird, tönte herüber. »#Where do you hail from?#«