[1]. Especially Max Müller’s essay on Comparative Mythology (Chips etc., II. 1), and the ninth in the second series of his Lectures on the Science of Language; and Cox’s introductions to his Manual of Mythology, Tales of the Gods and Heroes, and Tales of Thebes and Argos.
[2]. Both in England and in France the attempt has been made with much taste to introduce the results of comparative mythology in the instruction of youth; in England by Rev. G.W. Cox in his Tales of the Gods and Heroes, Tales of Thebes and Argos, Tales from Greek Mythology, Manual of Mythology in the form of question and answer, 1867, and Tales of Ancient Greece, 1870, the last two of which have just been translated into Hungarian, and published by the Franklin Society; in France by Baudry and Delerot (Paris 1872). Still more recently the results of comparative mythology have also been summarised in two excellent books for children by Edward Clodd, The Childhood of the World: a simple account of Man in Early Times, 1873, and The Childhood of Religion; embracing a simple account of the birth and growth of Myths and Legends, 1875.
[3]. This psychological uniformity of all races of men is independent of the question of the monogenetic or polygenetic origin of races. The psychological uniformity of different races is especially conspicuous when we observe and compare individuals of the separate races in infancy, when the distinctions produced by history, education, instruction, etc., are not yet present (see Frohschammer, Das Christenthum und die moderne Naturwissenschaft, Vienna 1868, p. 208.) When we are considering the growth of mankind in general, the stage when myths are created corresponds to the infancy of the individual.
[4]. Das Beständige in den Menschenrassen und die Spielweise ihrer Veränderlichkeit, Berlin 1868, p. 78.
[5]. François Lenormant, Essai sur la Propagation de l’Alphabet phénicien dans l’ancien monde, Vol. I. (2nd ed., Paris 1875), p. 17.
[6]. Tylor, Primitive Culture, I. 6.
[7]. On these two see Pfleiderer, Die Religion, ihr Wesen und ihre Geschichte, II. 8.
[8]. The title is 'Conférence de la Fable avec l’Histoire sainte, où l’on voit que les grandes fables, le culte et les mystères du paganisme ne sont que des copies altérées des histoires, des usages et des traditions des Hébreux.'
[9]. Edward Wilton in the Journal of Sacred Literature, 1849, II. 374 et seq.
[10]. Dr. Vollmer’s Wörterbuch der Mythologie aller Völker, newly revised by Dr. W. Binder, with an Introduction to Mythological Science by Dr. Johannes Minckwitz, 3rd ed., Stuttgart 1874.