[9] His euhemeristic interpretations of the Mexican myths are as worthless as the materials he unearthed are priceless.
[10] Mexico, October 15, 1850.
[11] This has, in fact, quite as strong a resemblance to the cosmological account in the Satapatha Brahmana in some details.
[12] A disquieting circumstance attending such ignorant criticism is that those who criticize appear in many instances to be quite unable to apprehend the substantial difficulties in the way of barbarian borrowings. Thus a reviewer in a weekly journal of standing actually inferred that certain North American Indian myths presented by the author had been sophisticated by Greek and classical tales. However well the theory of borrowing may explain things, and although borrowing does at times occur, the difficulties in this especial instance are overwhelming. They were quite unappreciated, however, by the reviewer, whose experience of myth was, of course, obviously limited. Students of myth would do well to bear the point of virtual impossibility in mind, as it is of constant occurrence, and one regarding which no fixed or definite rules or laws can possibly obtain.
[13] Myths of the New World by Professor D. G. Brinton (Philadelphia, 1905).