WILLIAM BRENDON AND SON, LTD., PLYMOUTH, ENGLAND
[1]. R. A. Knox, Some Loose Stones, p. 89.
[2]. A friend of mine performed the surprising feat of evolving an entire system—god, religion, worshippers and all—out of much less than four legs and a tail. His only material consisted of a word, half-obsolete, of uncertain derivation and meaning. The jaw-bone in the hands of Samson was as nothing compared with the magic of this word in the mind of the valiant expositor of prehistoric religions. While reading the paper in which he proclaimed his discovery to a learned society, one could not fail to note the profound impression which it made upon the hearers or to admire the transparent sincerity of the reader.
It will not surprise those who read this book to learn that its author spent some portion of the wakeful night which followed the reading of the paper in the composition of a simple liturgy to crown his friend’s achievement.
[3]. R. A. Courtney, The Hill and the Circle, p. 15.
[4]. Between the years 1854 and 1930, inclusive, Little Easter occurs once—on the 2nd of May, 1886.
[5]. Quoted in the Parochial History of Cornwall, iii., 175.
[6]. The Celtic controversy respecting the incidence of the Christian Passover was concerned solely with astronomical calculations and has, of course, no bearing upon the matter here under discussion.
[7]. Buttel-Reepen, Man and His Forerunners, pp. 72-3.