sociologic

Updated: June 15, 2025

+959+. All Semitic myths of which we have records are cosmogonic or sociologic or, in some late forms, theological constructions. It is Babylonia that has furnished the greater part of the material, perhaps all of it. The stories preserved give little or no portraiture of divine persons it is always cosmic phenomena that are described, and gods and heroes are introduced simply as actors.

Crawford Howell Toy - Introduction to the History of Religions: Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV

And it is inconceivable that any future investigator into the sociological phases of that civilization can fail to find priceless and unparalleled documents in the wild yet genial, rudimentary yet sane, boisterous yet universally human writings of Mark Twain. Mark Twain's genius of social comprehension and sociologic interpretation went even deeper than this.

Archibald Henderson - Mark Twain