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It was Verva's part to explain. The champion of the other tribe had never breathed after he received the club-thrust, and the chief medicine-man had declared that Why-Why was also dead. He had suggested that both champions should be burned in the desolate spot where they lay, that their boilyas, or ghosts, might not harm the tribes.
"Genius" is claimed for Shakespeare in an inscription on his Stratford monument, erected at latest some six years after his death. In recent times some philosophers, like Mr. F. W. H. Myers, put in place of the Muses or the Boilyas, or the Genius what they call the "Subliminal Self," something "far more deeply interfused than the everyday intellect."
Muller not unconsciously transporting a kind of modern malady of thought into the midst of people who wanted to find a dinner, and who might worship a tree if it had a grotesque shape, that, for them, had a magical meaning, or if boilyas lived in its boughs, but whose practical way of dealing with the problem of its life was to burn it round the stem, chop the charred wood with stone axes, and use the bark, branches, and leaves as they happened to come handy?
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