[56] Op. cit., pp. 23-24.
[57] Lang, op. cit., I, 162, and passim.
[58] Max Müller, op cit., p. 12.
[59] Nouveaux Essais, p. 320.
[60] See Lang, Myth, Ritual and Religion, I, p. 234, a passage from the Rig-Veda, with four very different translations by Max Müller, Wilson, Benfrey, and Langlois.
[61] On curiosity as the beginning of knowledge, compare the position held by Plato. (Tr.)
[62] On this general subject consult the interesting though somewhat general article by Professor John Dewey, "The Interpretation of the Savage Mind," in the Psychological Review, May, 1903. The author justly criticises the current description of savages in negative terms, and contends that there is general misunderstanding of the true nature of the savage and of his activities. (Tr.)
[63] It is now well accepted that Thales cannot be regarded as propounding a materialistic theory when he declares that everything is derived from water; for with him, "water" stands not merely for the substance that we call chemically "H2O," but for the "spirit that is in water" as well—the water-spirit is the Grundprincip. (Tr.)
[64] Max Müller, op. cit., 39, 47-48, 59-60.