[633]. This fact, moreover, refutes Buckle’s thesis (assuming the very opposite course of development), which makes history to be the earlier, and to be subsequently degraded to ‘a mythology full of marvels.’ This thesis has been estimated at its true value by Hermann Cohen in an article entitled Die dichterische Phantasie und der Mechanismus des Bewusstseins, in the Zeitsch. für Völkerpsychologie etc., 1869, VI. 186–193.
[634]. Mommsen, l.c. book III. chap 1.
[635]. Holtzmann, Deutsche Mythologie, p. 28.
[636]. Paul Gyulai, Vörösmarty élete [Life of Vörösmarty], Pest 1866, p. 49 et seq.
[637]. See [Excursus N].
[638]. Godgeleerde Bijdragen, 1866, p. 983 et seq. With him Kuenen agrees, The Religion of Israel, I. 311 et seq.
[639]. Like the Hungarian national hero Nicolas Toldi, who overcomes the Czech (Bohemian) hero in single combat.
[640]. Compare Genesis rabbâ, § 48.
[641]. See Shâhnâmeh (ed. Mohl), p. 124. vv. 121–29 and pp. 139–40, etc.
[642]. Hartung, in the first part of his Religion und Mythologie der Griechen, contradicts himself again and again on this subject. At first he makes monotheism precede all development of religion (p. 3), then he sees nothing religious at all in monotheism (p. 28), and next the growth of religion proceeds from polytheism to monotheism, not the reverse way (p. 32).