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But I omitted to quote what it was inexcusable not to add, that Professor Tiele thinks us 'too exclusive, that he himself had already, before us, combated Mr. Max Muller's method to be a house builded on the sand. That is the gist of what Professor Tiele said. Mr. Max Muller, like myself, quotes part and omits part.
The question of the precise attitude of Professor Tiele, the accomplished Gifford Lecturer in the University of Edinburgh , is more important and more difficult. His remarks were made in 1885, in an essay on the Myth of Cronos, and were separately reprinted, in 1886, from the 'Revue de l'Histoire des Religions, which I shall cite.
All the details mentioned by Tiele are included under the head of gift except acts of abstinence and self-sacrifice, and these last belong properly not to what is technically known as "sacrifice," but to man's endeavor to bring himself into ethical harmony with an ethical deity.
In view of recent discussions of the subject, it is important to note that Tiele already fifteen years ago recognized that Sargon was a historical personage. See his remarks, Babyl. Assyr. Gesch., p. 112. See Winterbotham, "The Cult of Father Abraham," in the Expositor, 1897, pp. 177-186. See Jensen's Kosmologie, p. 215, and Meissner, Altbabylonisches Privatrecht, p. 21.
'The philological method is inadequate and misleading, when it is a question of discovering the origin of a myth, or the physical explanation of the oldest myths, or of accounting for the rude and obscene element in the divine legends of civilised races. To the two former purposes Dr. Hahn applies the philological method in the case of Tsuni-Goam. Other scholars agree with Dr. Tiele.
Professor Tiele on Our Merits The merits of the new school Professor Tiele had already stated: 'If I were reduced to choose between this method and that of comparative philology, I would prefer the former without the slightest hesitation.
Professor Tiele, it may appear, really 'fights for his own hand, and is not a thorough partisan of either side.
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