"The stars, and hills and storms are with us now, as they were with others of old; and it only needs that we look at them with the earnestness of those childish eyes, to understand the first words spoken of them by the children of men, and then, in all the most beautiful and enduring myths, we shall find, not only a literal story of a real person, not only a parallel imagery of moral principle, but an underlying worship of natural phenomena, out of which both have sprung, and in which both forever remain rooted."
Ruskin.
Transcribers Note:
Several words in this book were inconsistently hyphenated, I have left all the hyphenation as it was written. In particular the contents tables often use different hyphenation and accents to the main text.
Some names were also spelt differently in the contents tables and in the main text. I have left these differences as they were written.