[3] Op. Cit., 355.

[4] Schoolcraft, Algic Researches, i. 41.

[5] Kohl, Wanderings Round Lake Superior, pp. 58, 59; Muller,
Amerikan Urrelig., pp. 62-67.

[6] 1636, p. 109.

[7] Western Pacific, p. 84.

[8] Anthropologie der Natur-Volker, ii. 177.

[9] Origin of Civilisation, p. 33. A number of examples of this
mental attitude among the Bushmen will be found in chap. v.,
postea.


To a race accustomed like ourselves to arrange and classify, to
people familiar from childhood and its games with "vegetable,
animal and mineral," a condition of mind in which no such
distinctions are drawn, any more than they are drawn in Greek or
Brahmanic myths, must naturally seem like what Mr. Max Muller calls
"temporary insanity". The imagination of the savage has been
defined by Mr. Tylor as "midway between the conditions of a
healthy, prosaic, modern citizen, and of a raving fanatic, or of a
patient in a fever-ward". If any relics of such imagination
survive in civilised mythology, they will very closely resemble the
productions of a once universal "temporary insanity". Let it be