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This too is Spain, but not the Spain of the beach and sea life. The rather numerous examples of what Mr. Christian Brinton has called Zuloaga's "growing diabolic tendency" make it clear that his art holds no place for spontaneity and the innocence due to ignorance, but where he keeps to Spanish subjects his work remains healthy.
Castration as a religious rite has played a considerable role. With all their might the Emperors Constantine and Justinian opposed the delirious religion of the priests of Cybele, and rendered their offence equivalent to homicide. Brinton names severe self-mutilators of this nature among the ancient Mexican priests.
Thus, from every point of view, and on every side, Animism is full of the seeds of religious degeneration, which do not and cannot exist in what I take to be the earliest known form of the theistic conception: that of a Being about whose metaphysical nature spirit or not spirit no questions were asked, as Dr. Brinton long ago remarked.
He quotes in support of his theory from the Walam-Olum as translated by Dr. Brinton, who giving the original in parallel pages, with the mnemonic signs, does not use in the English version the Indian names of the chiefs. This record of the Walam-Olum is really very curious.
It is easy to see why old men should be called by this latter name, for it describes precisely the color of their hair. Dr. Brinton, in his valuable work, American Hero Myths, has suggested a more profound reason why such a name should be given to the Creator. He says: "The most important of all things to life is light.
Brinton." The officer went out of the sap into the fire trench. "And get a move on with it." He stood for a few moments, looking thoughtful. "I hope," he muttered to himself, "I hope the old boy hasn't been scuppered." But the old boy had been scuppered. A runner failed to discover him in the trench; two strong patrols scoured the ground around the chalk 'ummock and drew blank.
Brinton, Religions of Primitive Peoples, 1897. The reports of travellers and missionaries are, of course, important. We must now make some attempt to set forth the principal features of the religion of savages. It is an attempt of some difficulty; for savage religion is an immense and bewildering jungle of all manner of extraordinary growths.
Brinton threw one of the pieces down in the middle of the floor, and the beast pounced on it as only a wild beast can, holding it between his paws as he gluttonously devoured it not with a lateral movement of the jaws, but cat-like amid half stifled, threatening growls, with menacing eyes turned from time to time toward the tamer.
Have you got the courage to go into him?" Rounders said he had. "I don't want any foolhardiness," continued the manager. "If you can manage to make Pompey run around the cage a little, that will do until Brinton recovers." A few minutes afterward Rounders was in the room of the wounded tamer, to whom he said: "I'm going in to do the business with Pompey, until you get well."
The bidding, of course, had stopped, owing to the unaffected interest which the public took in this more dramatic interlude. The broker, it is true, had bid twenty-five dollars, and was wrangling with the auctioneer. "You have my bid, Mr. Brinton, sir, and there is no other offer. Knock down the lot to me." "You wait your time, Mr. Isaacs," said the auctioneer.
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