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He was a workman and a fine sort of man, and if he'd been alive now he'd have been a Socialist, 'as most of us are, and he'd have made it hot for the rich loafers, and the sweaters, and the middlemen, 'as we'd like to make it hot for 'em. But as for those people who got up the Church Mythologists Tom Paine called 'em and the miracles, and made an uncommonly good thing out of it, pecuniarily speaking, he didn't see what they'd got to do with keeping up, or mending, or preserving their precious bit of work.
In explaining the harmony between Plato and Moses, Pico lays hold on every sort of figure and analogy, on the double meanings of words, the symbols of the Jewish ritual, the secondary meanings of obscure stories in the later Greek mythologists. Everywhere there is an unbroken system of correspondences.
Examples will be found chiefly in the essays styled 'The Myth of Cronus, 'A Far- travelled Tale, and 'Cupid and Psyche. Why, then, do distinguished scholars and mythologists reach such different goals? Clearly because their method is so precarious.
Nothing irritates philological mythologists so much, nothing has injured them so much in the esteem of the public which 'goes into these things a little, as the statement that their competing etymologies and discrepant interpretations of mythical names are mutually destructive.
There, according to Humboldt, reigns utter darkness, which the light of the sun and the earth cannot break. Mythologists could well have made it the mouth of hell. "Newton," said Barbicane, "is the most perfect type of these annular mountains, of which the earth possesses no sample.
The Christian mythologists, after having confined Satan in a pit, were obliged to let him out again to bring on the sequel of the fable.
On entering now on the study of the life of the Christ, of the rites of Christianity, its sacraments, its doctrines, it would be fatal to ignore the facts marshalled by Comparative Mythologists. Rightly understood, they may be made serviceable instead of mischievous.
"The Apollo is represented by the mythologists as a perfect man, in the vigour of life; tall, handsome and animated; his locks rising and floating on the wind; accomplished in mind and body; skilled in the benevolent art of alleviating pain; music his delight, and poetry and song his continual recreation.
According to the accounts of the heathen mythologists, Prometheus, who, in the first times, had discovered a great number of secrets, having been delivered from the charms, by which he was fastened to mount Caucasus for stealing fire from heaven, in memory or acknowledgment of the favour he received from Jupiter, made himself of one of those chains, a ring, in whose collet he represented the figure of part of the rock where he had been detained or rather, as Pliny says, set it in a bit of the same rock, and put it on his finger.
They think it scientific to compare only the myths of races which speak languages of the same family, and of races which have, in historic times, been actually in proved contact with each other. Thus, most mythologists hold it correct to compare Greek, Slavonic, Celtic, and Indian stories, because Greeks, Slavs, Celts, and Hindoos all speak languages of the same family.
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